ARES vs. AMP, OWL, APO, BAM, BEN, CG, TPG, KKR, IVZ, and BX
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), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Franklin Resources (BEN), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Invesco (IVZ), and Blackstone (BX). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Ares Management vs.
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) and Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
81.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.0% 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ameriprise Financial received 13 more outperform votes than Ares Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.54% of users gave Ares Management an outperform vote while only 64.65% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote.
Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Ares Management pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Ameriprise Financial pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Management pays out 280.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ameriprise Financial has raised its dividend for 18 consecutive years and Ares Management has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Management has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 15.41% compared to Ares Management's net margin of 6.84%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 77.32% beat Ares Management's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ares Management had 8 more articles in the media than Ameriprise Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ares Management and 5 mentions for Ameriprise Financial. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Ares Management's score of 0.02 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ameriprise Financial currently has a consensus target price of $349.70, indicating a potential upside of 11.19%. Ares Management has a consensus target price of $97.44, indicating a potential upside of 5.96%. Given Ameriprise Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ameriprise Financial is more favorable than Ares Management.
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 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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