LAZ vs. EVR, FHI, MC, AB, CNS, HLNE, APAM, FOCS, STEP, and JHG
Should you be buying Lazard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lazard include Evercore (EVR), Federated Hermes (FHI), Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Focus Financial Partners (FOCS), StepStone Group (STEP), and Janus Henderson Group (JHG).
Lazard vs.
Evercore (NYSE:EVR) and Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Lazard received 110 more outperform votes than Evercore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.31% of users gave Lazard an outperform vote while only 65.18% of users gave Evercore an outperform vote.
Evercore has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lazard. Evercore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lazard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Evercore has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lazard has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lazard had 8 more articles in the media than Evercore. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Lazard and 1 mentions for Evercore. Lazard's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Evercore's score of 0.00 indicating that Lazard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Evercore currently has a consensus target price of $121.20, suggesting a potential upside of 0.65%. Lazard has a consensus target price of $39.80, suggesting a potential upside of 31.27%. Given Lazard's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lazard is more favorable than Evercore.
82.1% of Evercore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.6% of Lazard shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Evercore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Lazard shares are held by company 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.
Evercore pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Lazard pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Evercore pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lazard pays out 93.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Evercore has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Lazard has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Evercore has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Lazard's net margin of 8.20%. Lazard's return on equity of 36.72% beat Evercore's return on equity.
Summary
Evercore beats Lazard on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LAZ and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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