EVR vs. LAZ, HLNE, AMG, JHG, IVZ, AB, STEP, MC, FHI, and CNS
Should you be buying Evercore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Evercore include Lazard (LAZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Invesco (IVZ), AllianceBernstein (AB), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), Federated Hermes (FHI), and Cohen & Steers (CNS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) and Evercore (NYSE:EVR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Lazard pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Evercore pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Lazard pays out -1,111.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Evercore pays out 35.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lazard has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Evercore has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Lazard is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lazard received 110 more outperform votes than Evercore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.96% of users gave Lazard an outperform vote while only 64.60% of users gave Evercore an outperform vote.
Lazard presently has a consensus target price of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.83%. Evercore has a consensus target price of $142.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.23%. Given Evercore's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lazard is more favorable than Evercore.
Evercore has a net margin of 13.80% compared to Evercore's net margin of 0.07%. Evercore's return on equity of 30.45% beat Lazard's return on equity.
Evercore has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lazard. Lazard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evercore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lazard had 15 more articles in the media than Evercore. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Lazard and 4 mentions for Evercore. Lazard's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Evercore's score of 0.07 indicating that Evercore is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lazard has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evercore has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.6% of Lazard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Evercore shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Lazard shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Evercore shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Evercore beats Lazard on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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