ARCC vs. AMP, STT, NTRS, TROW, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, AMG, MAIN, and CNS
Should you be buying Ares Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Capital include Ameriprise Financial (AMP), State Street (STT), Northern Trust (NTRS), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), and Cohen & Steers (CNS). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Ares Capital vs. Its Competitors
Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% 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 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameriprise Financial has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ares Capital has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 43.50% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 17.14%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 68.93% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Capital. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameriprise Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ares Capital currently has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.17%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus price target of $519.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.27%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Ameriprise Financial.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 7 more articles in the media than Ares Capital. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 18 mentions for Ares Capital. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Ares Capital's score of 1.25 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Ares Capital on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ARCC) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
