APO vs. ARES, AMP, BX, KKR, OWL, BAM, BBVA, USB, ITUB, and PNC
Should you be buying Apollo Global Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apollo Global Management include Ares Management (ARES), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blackstone (BX), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), U.S. Bancorp (USB), Itaú Unibanco (ITUB), and The PNC Financial Services Group (PNC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) and Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
50.0% of Ares Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of Apollo Global Management shares are held by institutional investors. 41.9% of Ares Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Apollo Global Management shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ares Management pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Apollo Global Management pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Ares Management pays out 166.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apollo Global Management pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Management has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Apollo Global Management has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Ares Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Apollo Global Management received 103 more outperform votes than Ares Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.13% of users gave Ares Management an outperform vote while only 64.43% of users gave Apollo Global Management an outperform vote.
Apollo Global Management has a net margin of 16.27% compared to Apollo Global Management's net margin of 12.86%. Apollo Global Management's return on equity of 21.22% beat Ares Management's return on equity.
Apollo Global Management has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Management. Apollo Global Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ares Management had 8 more articles in the media than Apollo Global Management. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Ares Management and 10 mentions for Apollo Global Management. Ares Management's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Apollo Global Management's score of 0.71 indicating that Apollo Global Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ares Management has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Global Management has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Management currently has a consensus target price of $133.43, indicating a potential downside of 7.56%. Apollo Global Management has a consensus target price of $115.62, indicating a potential upside of 0.02%. Given Ares Management's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Apollo Global Management is more favorable than Ares Management.
Summary
Apollo Global Management beats Ares Management on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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