ARCC vs. AMP, STT, TROW, NTRS, 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), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Northern Trust (NTRS), 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.
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
83.9% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 50.90% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 19.70%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 69.35% 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.
Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Ameriprise Financial pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 17 more articles in the media than Ares Capital. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 15 mentions for Ares Capital. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Ares Capital's score of 1.21 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ameriprise Financial received 180 more outperform votes than Ares Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote while only 62.69% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote.
Ameriprise Financial presently has a consensus target price of $517.13, suggesting a potential upside of 0.54%. Ares Capital has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.97%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Ameriprise Financial.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Ares Capital on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ARCC) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
