BEKE vs. JLL, CG, RPRX, L, CRBG, AER, SHG, NTRS, BAM, and SYF
Should you be buying KE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KE include Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), The Carlyle Group (CG), Royalty Pharma (RPRX), Loews (L), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), AerCap (AER), Shinhan Financial Group (SHG), Northern Trust (NTRS), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), and Synchrony Financial (SYF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) and KE (NYSE:BEKE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
94.8% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of KE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of KE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
KE has a net margin of 7.62% compared to KE's net margin of 1.09%. Jones Lang LaSalle's return on equity of 9.19% beat KE's return on equity.
KE has higher revenue and earnings than Jones Lang LaSalle. KE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jones Lang LaSalle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KE has a beta of -0.73, suggesting that its share price is 173% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KE had 4 more articles in the media than Jones Lang LaSalle. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for KE and 3 mentions for Jones Lang LaSalle. KE's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Jones Lang LaSalle's score of 1.41 indicating that Jones Lang LaSalle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jones Lang LaSalle received 409 more outperform votes than KE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.69% of users gave Jones Lang LaSalle an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave KE an outperform vote.
Jones Lang LaSalle presently has a consensus price target of $206.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.12%. KE has a consensus price target of $21.63, indicating a potential upside of 56.65%. Given Jones Lang LaSalle's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe KE is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
Summary
KE beats Jones Lang LaSalle on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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