OMC vs. LAMR, IPG, CCO, NCMI, GOOG, WPP, CRTO, STGW, GRPN, and HAO
Should you be buying Omnicom Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Omnicom Group include Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), Alphabet (GOOG), WPP (WPP), Criteo (CRTO), Stagwell (STGW), Groupon (GRPN), and Haoxi Health Technology (HAO).
Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) and Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Omnicom Group shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamar Advertising received 14 more outperform votes than Omnicom Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.11% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote while only 49.27% of users gave Omnicom Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lamar Advertising had 17 more articles in the media than Omnicom Group. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Lamar Advertising and 20 mentions for Omnicom Group. Lamar Advertising's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Omnicom Group's score of 0.40 indicating that Omnicom Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Omnicom Group pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Omnicom Group pays out 37.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Lamar Advertising currently has a consensus price target of $119.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.22%. Omnicom Group has a consensus price target of $104.70, suggesting a potential upside of 9.71%. Given Lamar Advertising's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Omnicom Group is more favorable than Lamar Advertising.
Omnicom Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lamar Advertising. Omnicom Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lamar Advertising, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lamar Advertising has a net margin of 23.29% compared to Lamar Advertising's net margin of 9.55%. Omnicom Group's return on equity of 41.86% beat Lamar Advertising's return on equity.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats Omnicom Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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