APAM vs. CNS, VCTR, MC, STEP, FHI, DBRG, AMK, LAZ, PJT, and HPH
Should you be buying Artisan Partners Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artisan Partners Asset Management include Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Moelis & Company (MC), StepStone Group (STEP), Federated Hermes (FHI), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Lazard (LAZ), PJT Partners (PJT), and Highest Performances (HPH). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) and Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Cohen & Steers currently has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.79%. Artisan Partners Asset Management has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.48%. Given Cohen & Steers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Artisan Partners Asset Management is more favorable than Cohen & Steers.
Cohen & Steers has a net margin of 26.27% compared to Cohen & Steers' net margin of 22.99%. Cohen & Steers' return on equity of 72.77% beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity.
Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Artisan Partners Asset Management received 96 more outperform votes than Cohen & Steers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave Artisan Partners Asset Management an outperform vote.
51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. 47.6% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than Cohen & Steers. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Artisan Partners Asset Management had 14 more articles in the media than Cohen & Steers. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management and 6 mentions for Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's score of -0.17 indicating that Artisan Partners Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Cohen & Steers pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 82.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cohen & Steers has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Artisan Partners Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Artisan Partners Asset Management beats Cohen & Steers on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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