BGC Group (BGC) Competitors

BGC Group (NASDAQ:BGC) and Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in BGC or SF?

52.1% of BGC Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.0% of Stifel Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of BGC Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Stifel Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is BGC or SF a better dividend stock?

BGC Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Stifel Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. BGC Group pays out 29.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stifel Financial pays out 35.2% 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. BGC Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Stifel Financial has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Stifel Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do analysts rate BGC or SF?

BGC Group currently has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 49.25%. Stifel Financial has a consensus price target of $105.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.74%. Given BGC Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe BGC Group is more favorable than Stifel Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BGC Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Stifel Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38

Which has better earnings & valuation, BGC or SF?

Stifel Financial has higher revenue and earnings than BGC Group. Stifel Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BGC Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BGC Group	$2.29B	2.07	$126.99M	$0.27	35.98
Stifel Financial	$5.00B	1.99	$731.38M	$5.23	18.55

Is BGC or SF more profitable?

Stifel Financial has a net margin of 14.00% compared to BGC Group's net margin of 5.59%. BGC Group's return on equity of 47.55% beat Stifel Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BGC Group	5.59%	47.55%	11.71%
Stifel Financial	14.00%	16.59%	2.04%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor BGC or SF?

BGC Group received 38 more outperform votes than Stifel Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave BGC Group an outperform vote while only 55.09% of users gave Stifel Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BGC Group	Outperform Votes 325 59.96%	Underperform Votes 217 40.04%
Stifel Financial	Outperform Votes 287 55.09%	Underperform Votes 234 44.91%

Which has more risk & volatility, BGC or SF?

BGC Group has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stifel Financial has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor BGC or SF?

In the previous week, Stifel Financial had 10 more articles in the media than BGC Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Stifel Financial and 1 mentions for BGC Group. Stifel Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat BGC Group's score of 0.69 indicating that Stifel Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BGC Group	Positive
Stifel Financial	Positive

Summary

BGC Group beats Stifel Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.