ARCC vs. BK, AMP, TROW, STT, NTRS, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, AMG, and MAIN
Should you be buying Ares Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Capital include Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), and Main Street Capital (MAIN). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE:BK) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Bank of New York Mellon received 475 more outperform votes than Ares Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.15% of users gave Bank of New York Mellon an outperform vote while only 62.56% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bank of New York Mellon had 4 more articles in the media than Ares Capital. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Bank of New York Mellon and 9 mentions for Ares Capital. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Bank of New York Mellon's score of 0.77 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Bank of New York Mellon pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ares Capital pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of New York Mellon pays out 41.0% 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.
Ares Capital currently has a consensus price target of $21.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.14%. Bank of New York Mellon has a consensus price target of $60.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.24%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Bank of New York Mellon.
Ares Capital has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Bank of New York Mellon has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Bank of New York Mellon shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ares Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Bank of New York Mellon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 62.77% compared to Bank of New York Mellon's net margin of 9.48%. Ares Capital's return on equity of 12.37% beat Bank of New York Mellon's return on equity.
Bank of New York Mellon has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Capital. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of New York Mellon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of New York Mellon beats Ares Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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