JEF vs. VICI, OWL, TPL, CBOE, TPG, NMR, CG, FUTU, WPC, and AMH
Should you be buying Jefferies Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jefferies Financial Group include VICI Properties (VICI), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), TPG (TPG), Nomura (NMR), The Carlyle Group (CG), Futu (FUTU), W. P. Carey (WPC), and American Homes 4 Rent (AMH). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Jefferies Financial Group vs. Its Competitors
Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) and VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Jefferies Financial Group received 349 more outperform votes than VICI Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.09% of users gave VICI Properties an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Jefferies Financial Group an outperform vote.
Jefferies Financial Group currently has a consensus target price of $62.75, suggesting a potential upside of 20.19%. VICI Properties has a consensus target price of $35.18, suggesting a potential upside of 9.59%. Given Jefferies Financial Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Jefferies Financial Group is more favorable than VICI Properties.
Jefferies Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. VICI Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Jefferies Financial Group pays out 55.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VICI Properties pays out 69.2% 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. Jefferies Financial Group has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and VICI Properties has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. VICI Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
VICI Properties has a net margin of 69.59% compared to Jefferies Financial Group's net margin of 10.57%. VICI Properties' return on equity of 10.24% beat Jefferies Financial Group's return on equity.
Jefferies Financial Group has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VICI Properties has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jefferies Financial Group had 35 more articles in the media than VICI Properties. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Jefferies Financial Group and 14 mentions for VICI Properties. VICI Properties' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Jefferies Financial Group's score of 0.65 indicating that VICI Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.9% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of VICI Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of VICI Properties shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
VICI Properties has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jefferies Financial Group. VICI Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jefferies Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
VICI Properties beats Jefferies Financial Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:JEF) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff