FII vs. ARCC, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, AMG, MAIN, CNS, GBDC, PSEC, and OCSL
Should you be buying Federated Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federated Investors include Ares Capital (ARCC), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), and Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Federated Investors vs.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Federated Investors (NYSE:FII) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
27.4% of Ares Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Federated Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Federated Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ares Capital has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federated Investors has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Capital presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.90%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Federated Investors.
Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Federated Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Federated Investors pays out 40.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Ares Capital received 172 more outperform votes than Federated Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.69% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote while only 43.43% of users gave Federated Investors an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ares Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Federated Investors. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ares Capital and 6 mentions for Federated Investors. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Federated Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Federated Investors. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federated Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 50.90% compared to Federated Investors' net margin of 20.52%. Federated Investors' return on equity of 28.65% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Ares Capital beats Federated Investors on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FII) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff