LandBridge (LB) Competitors

TPG (NASDAQ:TPG) and LandBridge (NYSE:LB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.

Do analysts recommend TPG or LB?

TPG presently has a consensus price target of $58.54, indicating a potential upside of 25.43%. LandBridge has a consensus price target of $59.44, indicating a potential downside of 20.91%. Given TPG's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TPG is more favorable than LandBridge.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TPG	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.43
LandBridge	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, TPG or LB?

LandBridge has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TPG. TPG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LandBridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TPG	$2.54B	6.80	$23.48M	-$0.44	-106.07
LandBridge	$109.95M	50.01	$260.42M	$3.56	21.11

Is TPG or LB a better dividend stock?

TPG pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. LandBridge pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. TPG pays out -481.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LandBridge pays out 11.2% 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. TPG is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TPG or LB?

LandBridge received 918 more outperform votes than TPG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.16% of users gave LandBridge an outperform vote while only 27.78% of users gave TPG an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
TPG	Outperform Votes 25 27.78%	Underperform Votes 65 72.22%
LandBridge	Outperform Votes 943 59.16%	Underperform Votes 651 40.84%

Do institutionals and insiders believe in TPG or LB?

94.0% of TPG shares are held by institutional investors. 76.5% of TPG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of LandBridge shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is TPG or LB more profitable?

TPG has a net margin of 0.67% compared to LandBridge's net margin of 0.00%. TPG's return on equity of 24.66% beat LandBridge's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TPG	0.67%	24.66%	8.15%
LandBridge	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to TPG or LB?

In the previous week, TPG had 14 more articles in the media than LandBridge. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for TPG and 7 mentions for LandBridge. LandBridge's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat TPG's score of 0.97 indicating that LandBridge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
TPG	11 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
LandBridge	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

TPG beats LandBridge on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.