BX vs. KKR, BAM, APO, HOOD, ARES, VICI, OWL, TPL, CBOE, and NMR
Should you be buying Blackstone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackstone include KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Apollo Global Management (APO), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Ares Management (ARES), VICI Properties (VICI), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), and Nomura (NMR). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Blackstone vs.
KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) and Blackstone (NYSE:BX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
KKR & Co. Inc. has a beta of 1.89, meaning that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackstone has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KKR & Co. Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Blackstone pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. KKR & Co. Inc. pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Blackstone pays out 112.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. KKR & Co. Inc. has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
KKR & Co. Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Blackstone. Blackstone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KKR & Co. Inc., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KKR & Co. Inc. currently has a consensus target price of $149.43, suggesting a potential upside of 20.42%. Blackstone has a consensus target price of $155.65, suggesting a potential upside of 8.86%. Given KKR & Co. Inc.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe KKR & Co. Inc. is more favorable than Blackstone.
In the previous week, KKR & Co. Inc. had 7 more articles in the media than Blackstone. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for KKR & Co. Inc. and 23 mentions for Blackstone. Blackstone's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s score of 0.52 indicating that Blackstone is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blackstone received 464 more outperform votes than KKR & Co. Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.29% of users gave Blackstone an outperform vote while only 63.68% of users gave KKR & Co. Inc. an outperform vote.
76.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of Blackstone shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Blackstone shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Blackstone has a net margin of 20.99% compared to KKR & Co. Inc.'s net margin of 14.31%. Blackstone's return on equity of 19.58% beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s return on equity.
Summary
KKR & Co. Inc. beats Blackstone on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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