OMC vs. LAMR, IPG, CCO, NCMI, GOOG, WPP, CRTO, STGW, GRPN, and HAO
Should you be buying Omnicom Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Omnicom Group include Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), Alphabet (GOOG), WPP (WPP), Criteo (CRTO), Stagwell (STGW), Groupon (GRPN), and Haoxi Health Technology (HAO).
Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) and Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Omnicom Group shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lamar Advertising currently has a consensus price target of $109.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.29%. Omnicom Group has a consensus price target of $104.40, suggesting a potential upside of 14.61%. Given Lamar Advertising's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Omnicom Group is more favorable than Lamar Advertising.
Omnicom Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lamar Advertising. Omnicom Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamar Advertising, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lamar Advertising received 15 more outperform votes than Omnicom Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.14% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote while only 49.14% of users gave Omnicom Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Omnicom Group had 5 more articles in the media than Lamar Advertising. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Omnicom Group and 4 mentions for Lamar Advertising. Omnicom Group's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Lamar Advertising's score of 1.11 indicating that Lamar Advertising is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lamar Advertising has a net margin of 23.29% compared to Lamar Advertising's net margin of 9.96%. Omnicom Group's return on equity of 41.86% beat Lamar Advertising's return on equity.
Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Omnicom Group pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Omnicom Group pays out 37.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lamar Advertising has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Lamar Advertising is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats Omnicom Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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