ARES vs. AMP, OWL, APO, CG, BAM, TPG, BEN, KKR, BX, and MFC
Should you be buying Ares Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Management include Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Apollo Global Management (APO), The Carlyle Group (CG), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), Franklin Resources (BEN), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Blackstone (BX), and Manulife Financial (MFC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) and Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Ares Management pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ameriprise Financial pays out 18.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Management pays out 155.6% 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 raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years and Ares Management has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Ameriprise Financial currently has a consensus target price of $449.57, indicating a potential upside of 9.41%. Ares Management has a consensus target price of $126.17, indicating a potential downside of 6.83%. Given Ares Management's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ameriprise Financial is more favorable than Ares Management.
Ameriprise Financial received 13 more outperform votes than Ares Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.03% of users gave Ares Management an outperform vote while only 63.84% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote.
84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Ares Management shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.3% of Ares Management shares are held 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.
Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 19.42% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 13.06%. Ares Management's return on equity of 75.97% beat Ameriprise Financial's return on equity.
Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Management has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 16 more articles in the media than Ares Management. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 15 mentions for Ares Management. Ares Management's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Ameriprise Financial's score of 0.66 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Management. Ameriprise Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Ares Management on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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