Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM) Competitors

Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) and Regency Centers (NASDAQ:REG) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of APAM or REG?

86.4% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Regency Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Regency Centers shares are owned by company 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.

Do analysts rate APAM or REG?

Artisan Partners Asset Management presently has a consensus price target of $37.90, suggesting a potential downside of 10.63%. Regency Centers has a consensus price target of $78.08, suggesting a potential upside of 6.77%. Given Regency Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Regency Centers is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Artisan Partners Asset Management	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Regency Centers	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in APAM or REG?

Artisan Partners Asset Management received 292 more outperform votes than Regency Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.31% of users gave Artisan Partners Asset Management an outperform vote while only 47.00% of users gave Regency Centers an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Artisan Partners Asset Management	Outperform Votes 339 52.31%	Underperform Votes 309 47.69%
Regency Centers	Outperform Votes 47 47.00%	Underperform Votes 53 53.00%

Which has more risk & volatility, APAM or REG?

Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regency Centers has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is APAM or REG a better dividend stock?

Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Regency Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 75.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Regency Centers pays out 133.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Regency Centers has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Artisan Partners Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has better earnings & valuation, APAM or REG?

Regency Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Artisan Partners Asset Management. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regency Centers, 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
Artisan Partners Asset Management	$1.12B	3.03	$259.70M	$3.62	11.72
Regency Centers	$1.47B	9.02	$400.39M	$2.12	34.50

Does the media favor APAM or REG?

In the previous week, Regency Centers had 6 more articles in the media than Artisan Partners Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Regency Centers and 7 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management. Artisan Partners Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Regency Centers' score of 1.22 indicating that Artisan Partners Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Artisan Partners Asset Management	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Regency Centers	9 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is APAM or REG more profitable?

Regency Centers has a net margin of 27.54% compared to Artisan Partners Asset Management's net margin of 23.36%. Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity of 74.02% beat Regency Centers' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Artisan Partners Asset Management	23.36%	74.02%	18.39%
Regency Centers	27.54%	5.91%	3.21%

Summary

Regency Centers beats Artisan Partners Asset Management on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.