ARES vs. AMP, OWL, APO, CG, BAM, TPG, BEN, KKR, BX, and MFC
Should you be buying Ares Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Management include Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Apollo Global Management (APO), The Carlyle Group (CG), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), Franklin Resources (BEN), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Blackstone (BX), and Manulife Financial (MFC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Ares Management currently has a consensus price target of $126.17, indicating a potential downside of 5.58%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus price target of $449.57, indicating a potential upside of 9.65%. Given Ameriprise Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ameriprise Financial is more favorable than Ares Management.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 19 more articles in the media than Ares Management. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 13 mentions for Ares Management. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Ares Management's score of 0.59 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
50.0% of Ares Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.3% of Ares Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ameriprise Financial received 13 more outperform votes than Ares Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.03% of users gave Ares Management an outperform vote while only 63.84% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote.
Ares Management has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Management. Ameriprise Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 19.42% compared to Ares Management's net margin of 13.06%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 75.97% beat Ares Management's return on equity.
Ares Management pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Ares Management pays out 155.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ameriprise Financial pays out 18.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Ares Management on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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