OMC vs. IPG, WPP, J, STX, BAH, APTV, FDS, CPAY, TRU, and SYM
Should you be buying Omnicom Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Omnicom Group include Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), WPP (WPP), Jacobs Solutions (J), Seagate Technology (STX), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Aptiv (APTV), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Corpay (CPAY), TransUnion (TRU), and Symbotic (SYM). 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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Interpublic Group of Companies has a net margin of 9.97% compared to Interpublic Group of Companies' net margin of 9.96%. Interpublic Group of Companies' return on equity of 38.23% beat Omnicom Group's return on equity.
Interpublic Group of Companies currently has a consensus price target of $35.13, indicating a potential upside of 15.20%. Omnicom Group has a consensus price target of $103.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.41%. Given Omnicom Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Interpublic Group of Companies is more favorable than Omnicom Group.
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. Interpublic Group of Companies has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Interpublic Group of Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Interpublic Group of Companies has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Interpublic Group of Companies had 2 more articles in the media than Omnicom Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Interpublic Group of Companies and 9 mentions for Omnicom Group. Interpublic Group of Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Omnicom Group's score of 0.65 indicating that Omnicom Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
Omnicom Group beats Interpublic Group of Companies on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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