IPG vs. OMC, WPP, CNM, DOCU, GFL, MORN, PATH, CLH, ESTC, and GEN
Should you be buying Interpublic Group of Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interpublic Group of Companies include Omnicom Group (OMC), WPP (WPP), Core & Main (CNM), DocuSign (DOCU), GFL Environmental (GFL), Morningstar (MORN), UiPath (PATH), Clean Harbors (CLH), Elastic (ESTC), and Gen Digital (GEN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG) and Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Interpublic Group of Companies received 205 more outperform votes than Omnicom Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Interpublic Group of Companies an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave Omnicom Group an outperform vote.
98.4% of Interpublic Group of Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Omnicom Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Interpublic Group of Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Interpublic Group of Companies presently has a consensus target price of $35.13, indicating a potential upside of 14.34%. Omnicom Group has a consensus target price of $103.40, indicating a potential upside of 11.48%. Given Interpublic Group of Companies' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Interpublic Group of Companies is more favorable than Omnicom Group.
Interpublic Group of Companies has a net margin of 9.97% compared to Omnicom Group's net margin of 9.96%. Omnicom Group's return on equity of 38.23% beat Interpublic Group of Companies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Omnicom Group had 5 more articles in the media than Interpublic Group of Companies. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Omnicom Group and 5 mentions for Interpublic Group of Companies. Interpublic Group of Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Omnicom Group's score of 0.92 indicating that Interpublic Group of Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Interpublic Group of Companies has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Interpublic Group of Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Omnicom Group pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Interpublic Group of Companies pays out 47.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Omnicom Group pays out 37.8% 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.
Omnicom Group has higher revenue and earnings than Interpublic Group of Companies. Interpublic Group of Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Omnicom Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Omnicom Group beats Interpublic Group of Companies on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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