AER vs. RPRX, SOFI, CCCS, VRT, URI, AL, MGRC, UPBD, PRG, and CTOS
Should you be buying AerCap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AerCap include Royalty Pharma (RPRX), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS), Vertiv (VRT), United Rentals (URI), Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Upbound Group (UPBD), PROG (PRG), and Custom Truck One Source (CTOS).
Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ:RPRX) and AerCap (NYSE:AER) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Royalty Pharma currently has a consensus price target of $41.80, suggesting a potential upside of 45.19%. AerCap has a consensus price target of $99.44, suggesting a potential upside of 6.26%. Given AerCap's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Royalty Pharma is more favorable than AerCap.
AerCap has higher revenue and earnings than Royalty Pharma. AerCap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royalty Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.4% of Royalty Pharma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.4% of AerCap shares are held by institutional investors. 18.9% of Royalty Pharma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AerCap shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Royalty Pharma pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. AerCap pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Royalty Pharma pays out 62.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AerCap pays out 6.5% 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.
AerCap has a net margin of 42.78% compared to AerCap's net margin of 35.70%. AerCap's return on equity of 22.94% beat Royalty Pharma's return on equity.
Royalty Pharma has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AerCap has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AerCap received 232 more outperform votes than Royalty Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.29% of users gave AerCap an outperform vote while only 67.88% of users gave Royalty Pharma an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Royalty Pharma had 4 more articles in the media than AerCap. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Royalty Pharma and 5 mentions for AerCap. Royalty Pharma's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat AerCap's score of 0.94 indicating that AerCap is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AerCap beats Royalty Pharma on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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