IX vs. AVB, TROW, RJF, OWL, NWG, PUK, TW, BRO, FITB, and WTW
Should you be buying ORIX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ORIX include AvalonBay Communities (AVB), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Raymond James (RJF), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), NatWest Group (NWG), Prudential (PUK), Tradeweb Markets (TW), Brown & Brown (BRO), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), and Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) and ORIX (NYSE:IX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
92.6% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of ORIX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of AvalonBay Communities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of ORIX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AvalonBay Communities has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ORIX has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ORIX had 3 more articles in the media than AvalonBay Communities. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ORIX and 6 mentions for AvalonBay Communities. ORIX's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat AvalonBay Communities' score of 0.04 indicating that AvalonBay Communities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AvalonBay Communities received 473 more outperform votes than ORIX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave AvalonBay Communities an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave ORIX an outperform vote.
AvalonBay Communities currently has a consensus target price of $197.03, indicating a potential upside of 6.28%. Given ORIX's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe AvalonBay Communities is more favorable than ORIX.
AvalonBay Communities has a net margin of 33.56% compared to AvalonBay Communities' net margin of 10.31%. ORIX's return on equity of 7.98% beat AvalonBay Communities' return on equity.
ORIX has higher revenue and earnings than AvalonBay Communities. ORIX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AvalonBay Communities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AvalonBay Communities pays an annual dividend of $6.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. ORIX pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. AvalonBay Communities pays out 100.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ORIX pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AvalonBay Communities has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. AvalonBay Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
AvalonBay Communities beats ORIX on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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