PJT vs. DBRG, AMK, HPH, FHI, GCMG, CIXXF, VRTS, VCTR, CNS, and APAM
Should you be buying PJT Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PJT Partners include DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Highest Performances (HPH), Federated Hermes (FHI), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), CI Financial (CIXXF), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Cohen & Steers (CNS), and Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
DigitalBridge Group (NYSE:DBRG) and PJT Partners (NYSE:PJT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
DigitalBridge Group has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PJT Partners has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DigitalBridge Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. PJT Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. DigitalBridge Group pays out 2.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PJT Partners pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, DigitalBridge Group had 1 more articles in the media than PJT Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DigitalBridge Group and 2 mentions for PJT Partners. DigitalBridge Group's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat PJT Partners' score of 0.10 indicating that PJT Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.7% of DigitalBridge Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.2% of PJT Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of DigitalBridge Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of PJT Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DigitalBridge Group currently has a consensus target price of $21.25, suggesting a potential upside of 61.84%. PJT Partners has a consensus target price of $93.25, suggesting a potential downside of 11.12%. Given PJT Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe DigitalBridge Group is more favorable than PJT Partners.
PJT Partners received 231 more outperform votes than DigitalBridge Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.21% of users gave PJT Partners an outperform vote while only 43.14% of users gave DigitalBridge Group an outperform vote.
DigitalBridge Group has higher revenue and earnings than PJT Partners. DigitalBridge Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PJT Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DigitalBridge Group has a net margin of 26.64% compared to DigitalBridge Group's net margin of 7.57%. DigitalBridge Group's return on equity of 17.36% beat PJT Partners' return on equity.
Summary
DigitalBridge Group beats PJT Partners on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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