LAZ vs. EVR, STEP, MC, JHG, AMG, CNS, APAM, VCTR, FHI, and DBRG
Should you be buying Lazard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lazard include Evercore (EVR), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Victory Capital (VCTR), Federated Hermes (FHI), and DigitalBridge Group (DBRG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) and Evercore (NYSE:EVR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
Lazard presently has a consensus price target of $45.67, indicating a potential upside of 17.12%. Evercore has a consensus price target of $180.67, indicating a potential downside of 1.97%. Given Lazard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lazard is more favorable than Evercore.
Evercore has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lazard. Lazard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evercore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lazard had 11 more articles in the media than Evercore. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Lazard and 16 mentions for Evercore. Lazard's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Evercore's score of 0.14 indicating that Lazard is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lazard pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Evercore pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Lazard pays out -571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Evercore pays out 47.7% 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. Lazard is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lazard has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evercore has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lazard received 109 more outperform votes than Evercore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.61% of users gave Lazard an outperform vote while only 63.99% of users gave Evercore an outperform vote.
Evercore has a net margin of 10.53% compared to Lazard's net margin of -0.63%. Lazard's return on equity of 37.47% beat Evercore's return on equity.
54.8% of Lazard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Evercore shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Lazard shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Evercore shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lazard beats Evercore on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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