AER vs. SHG, AEG, SYF, BAM, NTRS, CRBG, RF, CINF, NMR, and L
Should you be buying AerCap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AerCap include Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Aegon (AEG), Synchrony Financial (SYF), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Northern Trust (NTRS), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), Regions Financial (RF), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Nomura (NMR), and Loews (L). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AerCap (NYSE:AER) and Shinhan Financial Group (NYSE:SHG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
Shinhan Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than AerCap. Shinhan Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AerCap, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AerCap pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Shinhan Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. AerCap pays out 6.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shinhan Financial Group pays out 19.7% 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.
AerCap has a net margin of 42.78% compared to Shinhan Financial Group's net margin of 13.45%. AerCap's return on equity of 15.29% beat Shinhan Financial Group's return on equity.
AerCap has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shinhan Financial Group has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AerCap received 280 more outperform votes than Shinhan Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.32% of users gave AerCap an outperform vote while only 63.57% of users gave Shinhan Financial Group an outperform vote.
96.4% of AerCap shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AerCap shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Shinhan Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AerCap currently has a consensus price target of $94.38, indicating a potential upside of 3.20%. Given AerCap's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AerCap is more favorable than Shinhan Financial Group.
In the previous week, AerCap had 8 more articles in the media than Shinhan Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for AerCap and 1 mentions for Shinhan Financial Group. Shinhan Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat AerCap's score of 1.17 indicating that Shinhan Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AerCap beats Shinhan Financial Group on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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