HLI vs. VICI, TPL, OWL, CBOE, TPG, NMR, CG, FUTU, AMH, and WPC
Should you be buying Houlihan Lokey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Houlihan Lokey include VICI Properties (VICI), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), TPG (TPG), Nomura (NMR), The Carlyle Group (CG), Futu (FUTU), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), and W. P. Carey (WPC). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Houlihan Lokey vs.
VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) and Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
97.7% of VICI Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Houlihan Lokey shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.7% of Houlihan Lokey shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
VICI Properties presently has a consensus target price of $35.18, suggesting a potential upside of 11.70%. Houlihan Lokey has a consensus target price of $185.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.96%. Given VICI Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe VICI Properties is more favorable than Houlihan Lokey.
VICI Properties received 5 more outperform votes than Houlihan Lokey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.09% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote while only 60.56% of users gave Houlihan Lokey an outperform vote.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 69.59% compared to Houlihan Lokey's net margin of 16.00%. Houlihan Lokey's return on equity of 20.04% beat VICI Properties' return on equity.
VICI Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Houlihan Lokey. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Houlihan Lokey, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VICI Properties has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Houlihan Lokey has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Houlihan Lokey pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. VICI Properties pays out 69.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Houlihan Lokey pays out 41.2% 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. VICI Properties has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Houlihan Lokey has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, VICI Properties had 3 more articles in the media than Houlihan Lokey. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for VICI Properties and 18 mentions for Houlihan Lokey. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Houlihan Lokey's score of 1.39 indicating that VICI Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Houlihan Lokey on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HLI) was last updated on 5/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
