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MC vs. APAM, EVR, GS, HLI, JEF, LAZ, MS, PIPR, PJT, and SF

Should you be buying Moelis & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moelis & Company include Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Evercore (EVR), The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Lazard (LAZ), Morgan Stanley (MS), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), PJT Partners (PJT), and Stifel Financial (SF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Moelis & Company vs. Its Competitors

Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) and Moelis & Company (NYSE:MC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Artisan Partners Asset Management has a net margin of 23.87% compared to Moelis & Company's net margin of 14.31%. Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity of 71.72% beat Moelis & Company's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Artisan Partners Asset Management23.87% 71.72% 19.47%
Moelis & Company 14.31%42.72%17.12%

86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Moelis & Company shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Moelis & Company shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moelis & Company has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Artisan Partners Asset Management presently has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.19%. Moelis & Company has a consensus price target of $71.86, indicating a potential upside of 4.55%. Given Moelis & Company's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Moelis & Company is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Artisan Partners Asset Management
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29
Moelis & Company
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30

Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Moelis & Company pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Moelis & Company pays out 102.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Moelis & Company has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Artisan Partners Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Artisan Partners Asset Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Moelis & Company. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moelis & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Artisan Partners Asset Management$1.11B3.16$259.75M$3.7611.56
Moelis & Company$1.19B4.52$136.02M$2.5427.06

In the previous week, Artisan Partners Asset Management had 1 more articles in the media than Moelis & Company. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management and 6 mentions for Moelis & Company. Artisan Partners Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Moelis & Company's score of 0.82 indicating that Artisan Partners Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Artisan Partners Asset Management
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Moelis & Company
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Artisan Partners Asset Management beats Moelis & Company on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MC vs. The Competition

MetricMoelis & CompanyFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.42B$103.88B$12.60B$21.97B
Dividend Yield3.77%1.95%5.57%3.60%
P/E Ratio27.0617.1720.8929.91
Price / Sales4.526.0029.9359.13
Price / Cash32.1524.3322.3724.33
Price / Book10.743.752.234.60
Net Income$136.02M$6.24B$1.02B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.14%-1.05%-0.70%-0.71%
1 Month Performance-9.30%-3.70%-1.35%-0.62%
1 Year Performance-2.36%33.23%535.56%10.38%

Moelis & Company Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MC
Moelis & Company
3.6516 of 5 stars
$68.73
-0.4%
$71.86
+4.5%
-2.2%$5.42B$1.19B27.061,309Upcoming Earnings
APAM
Artisan Partners Asset Management
3.351 of 5 stars
$43.46
+2.5%
$44.00
+1.2%
-3.9%$3.42B$1.11B11.56500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
EVR
Evercore
4.8365 of 5 stars
$315.86
+4.9%
$319.13
+1.0%
+15.1%$11.62B$2.98B28.712,380Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
4.7835 of 5 stars
$788.52
+3.2%
$746.69
-5.3%
+46.6%$231.39B$126.85B17.3846,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
HLI
Houlihan Lokey
4.8711 of 5 stars
$191.69
+1.9%
$212.43
+10.8%
+12.0%$13.22B$2.39B32.271,100Upcoming Earnings
JEF
Jefferies Financial Group
4.9256 of 5 stars
$53.81
+5.7%
$72.00
+33.8%
-15.8%$10.50B$7.03B18.497,822Trending News
High Trading Volume
LAZ
Lazard
4.4363 of 5 stars
$49.19
+2.8%
$54.43
+10.6%
-3.3%$5.40B$3.05B16.963,263Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.8442 of 5 stars
$155.10
+2.1%
$154.85
-0.2%
+34.6%$242.42B$107.29B17.5780,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
PIPR
Piper Sandler Companies
N/A$341.28
+4.6%
$312.50
-8.4%
N/A$5.77B$1.53B28.801,805News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
PJT
PJT Partners
2.7317 of 5 stars
$173.76
+1.6%
$185.00
+6.5%
+20.5%$4.16B$1.49B29.861,143News Coverage
SF
Stifel Financial
4.3725 of 5 stars
$109.37
+2.2%
$122.60
+12.1%
+10.8%$10.94B$4.97B21.209,000Trending News
Earnings Report

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