BAM vs. BEN, OWL, CG, TPG, IVZ, HLI, AMG, JHG, EVR, and FOCS
Should you be buying Brookfield Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Asset Management include Franklin Resources (BEN), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), Invesco (IVZ), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Evercore (EVR), and Focus Financial Partners (FOCS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Brookfield Asset Management vs.
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) and Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) 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, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Brookfield Asset Management received 69 more outperform votes than Franklin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.54% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote while only 41.68% of users gave Franklin Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Brookfield Asset Management had 2 more articles in the media than Franklin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Brookfield Asset Management and 8 mentions for Franklin Resources. Brookfield Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Franklin Resources' score of 1.01 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Franklin Resources pays out 72.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Resources has increased its dividend for 41 consecutive years and Brookfield Asset Management has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Franklin Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Franklin Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Asset Management.
Franklin Resources currently has a consensus target price of $24.55, suggesting a potential downside of 0.26%. Brookfield Asset Management has a consensus target price of $43.57, suggesting a potential upside of 40.24%. Given Brookfield Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookfield Asset Management is more favorable than Franklin Resources.
Franklin Resources has a net margin of 10.79% compared to Brookfield Asset Management's net margin of 0.00%. Franklin Resources' return on equity of 11.21% beat Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity.
45.5% of Franklin Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 23.4% of Franklin Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Brookfield Asset Management beats Franklin Resources on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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