KKR vs. APO, AMP, BX, ARES, OWL, BEN, BAM, CG, MET, and TFC
Should you be buying KKR & Co. Inc. stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KKR & Co. Inc. include Apollo Global Management (APO), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blackstone (BX), Ares Management (ARES), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Franklin Resources (BEN), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), The Carlyle Group (CG), MetLife (MET), and Truist Financial (TFC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
KKR & Co. Inc. vs.
Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) and KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
69.0% of Apollo Global Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of Apollo Global Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Apollo Global Management has higher revenue and earnings than KKR & Co. Inc.. KKR & Co. Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Global Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KKR & Co. Inc. has a net margin of -14.70% compared to Apollo Global Management's net margin of -29.29%. Apollo Global Management's return on equity of 116.88% beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s return on equity.
Apollo Global Management currently has a consensus price target of $74.22, suggesting a potential upside of 23.44%. KKR & Co. Inc. has a consensus price target of $67.69, suggesting a potential upside of 32.96%. Given KKR & Co. Inc.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe KKR & Co. Inc. is more favorable than Apollo Global Management.
Apollo Global Management received 8 more outperform votes than KKR & Co. Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.55% of users gave Apollo Global Management an outperform vote while only 63.70% of users gave KKR & Co. Inc. an outperform vote.
Apollo Global Management pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. KKR & Co. Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Apollo Global Management pays out -28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KKR & Co. Inc. pays out -45.6% 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. KKR & Co. Inc. has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Apollo Global Management has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR & Co. Inc. has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apollo Global Management had 1 more articles in the media than KKR & Co. Inc.. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Apollo Global Management and 9 mentions for KKR & Co. Inc.. KKR & Co. Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Apollo Global Management's score of 0.36 indicating that KKR & Co. Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Apollo Global Management beats KKR & Co. Inc. on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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