FII vs. CNS, AMG, VRTS, IVZ, BEN, VCTR, APAM, MC, AB, and FHI
Should you be buying Federated Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federated Investors include Cohen & Steers (CNS), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Invesco (IVZ), Franklin Resources (BEN), Victory Capital (VCTR), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), and Federated Hermes (FHI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Federated Investors (NYSE:FII) and Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Federated Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Cohen & Steers. Federated Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Federated Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Federated Investors pays out 40.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Cohen & Steers has a net margin of 26.27% compared to Federated Investors' net margin of 20.52%. Cohen & Steers' return on equity of 36.96% beat Federated Investors' return on equity.
82.2% of Federated Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Federated Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.6% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cohen & Steers has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.13%. Given Cohen & Steers' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cohen & Steers is more favorable than Federated Investors.
Federated Investors has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cohen & Steers had 2 more articles in the media than Federated Investors. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cohen & Steers and 9 mentions for Federated Investors. Cohen & Steers' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Federated Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Cohen & Steers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Federated Investors received 13 more outperform votes than Cohen & Steers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote while only 43.43% of users gave Federated Investors an outperform vote.
Summary
Cohen & Steers beats Federated Investors on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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