BSIG vs. FHI, AMK, PJT, DBRG, HPH, GCMG, VRTS, CIXXF, BBDC, and BRDG
Should you be buying BrightSphere Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BrightSphere Investment Group include Federated Hermes (FHI), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Highest Performances (HPH), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), CI Financial (CIXXF), Barings BDC (BBDC), and Bridge Investment Group (BRDG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
BrightSphere Investment Group (NYSE:BSIG) and Federated Hermes (NYSE:FHI) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Federated Hermes has a net margin of 18.75% compared to BrightSphere Investment Group's net margin of 15.53%. BrightSphere Investment Group's return on equity of 438.16% beat Federated Hermes' return on equity.
BrightSphere Investment Group has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federated Hermes has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Federated Hermes has higher revenue and earnings than BrightSphere Investment Group. Federated Hermes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSphere Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BrightSphere Investment Group received 136 more outperform votes than Federated Hermes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.71% of users gave BrightSphere Investment Group an outperform vote while only 27.40% of users gave Federated Hermes an outperform vote.
BrightSphere Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Federated Hermes pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. BrightSphere Investment Group pays out 2.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Federated Hermes pays out 35.2% 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.
BrightSphere Investment Group presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.22%. Federated Hermes has a consensus target price of $38.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.97%. Given Federated Hermes' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Federated Hermes is more favorable than BrightSphere Investment Group.
In the previous week, Federated Hermes had 1 more articles in the media than BrightSphere Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Federated Hermes and 2 mentions for BrightSphere Investment Group. BrightSphere Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Federated Hermes' score of 1.47 indicating that BrightSphere Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Federated Hermes shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Federated Hermes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
BrightSphere Investment Group beats Federated Hermes on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BSIG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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