BGC vs. SNEX, UMBF, HWC, OSCR, STEP, MAIN, COLB, GBCI, PECO, and KRC
Should you be buying BGC Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BGC Group include StoneX Group (SNEX), UMB Financial (UMBF), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Oscar Health (OSCR), StepStone Group (STEP), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Columbia Banking System (COLB), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), and Kilroy Realty (KRC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
StoneX Group (NASDAQ:SNEX) and BGC Group (NASDAQ:BGC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
StoneX Group has higher revenue and earnings than BGC Group. StoneX Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BGC Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
StoneX Group has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BGC Group has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BGC Group received 312 more outperform votes than StoneX Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.74% of users gave BGC Group an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave StoneX Group an outperform vote.
75.9% of StoneX Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of BGC Group shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of StoneX Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.9% of BGC Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, BGC Group had 4 more articles in the media than StoneX Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for BGC Group and 6 mentions for StoneX Group. BGC Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat StoneX Group's score of 0.50 indicating that StoneX Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BGC Group has a net margin of 3.16% compared to BGC Group's net margin of 0.34%. StoneX Group's return on equity of 47.67% beat BGC Group's return on equity.
Summary
BGC Group beats StoneX Group on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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