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Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR) Competitors

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$327.70 -3.81 (-1.15%)
Closing price 09/5/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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PIPR vs. AMP, EQH, EVR, GS, HLI, JEF, LAZ, MC, MS, and SF

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

Piper Sandler Companies vs. Its Competitors

Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Piper Sandler Companies presently has a consensus price target of $312.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.64%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus price target of $534.71, indicating a potential upside of 9.25%. Given Ameriprise Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ameriprise Financial is more favorable than Piper Sandler Companies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Piper Sandler Companies
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Ameriprise Financial
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.13

Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 18.30% compared to Piper Sandler Companies' net margin of 13.18%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 65.90% beat Piper Sandler Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Piper Sandler Companies13.18% 18.67% 12.85%
Ameriprise Financial 18.30%65.90%2.02%

Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Piper Sandler Companies. Ameriprise Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piper Sandler Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Piper Sandler Companies$1.53B3.80$181.11M$11.8527.65
Ameriprise Financial$17.26B2.67$3.40B$32.1415.23

Piper Sandler Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $6.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Piper Sandler Companies pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameriprise Financial pays out 19.9% 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. Piper Sandler Companies has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Ameriprise Financial has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Ameriprise Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Piper Sandler Companies has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 14 more articles in the media than Piper Sandler Companies. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 5 mentions for Piper Sandler Companies. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Piper Sandler Companies' score of 1.03 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Piper Sandler Companies
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ameriprise Financial
17 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

72.8% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Ameriprise Financial beats Piper Sandler Companies on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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PIPR vs. The Competition

MetricPiper Sandler CompaniesFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.79B$100.16B$12.63B$21.33B
Dividend Yield0.86%1.91%5.41%3.49%
P/E Ratio27.6516.73232.4229.64
Price / Sales3.805.7831.0167.52
Price / Cash21.4123.1622.1325.18
Price / Book4.123.742.294.55
Net Income$181.11M$6.24B$1.01B$999.70M
7 Day Performance-1.73%-2.07%0.45%0.58%
1 Month Performance2.12%0.27%3.99%5.67%
1 Year PerformanceN/A56.49%544.49%18.25%

Piper Sandler Companies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PIPR
Piper Sandler Companies
N/A$327.70
-1.1%
$312.50
-4.6%
N/A$5.79B$1.53B27.651,805Positive News
AMP
Ameriprise Financial
4.718 of 5 stars
$515.46
-0.2%
$534.71
+3.7%
+13.7%$48.53B$17.26B16.0413,600Positive News
EQH
Equitable
4.3881 of 5 stars
$53.27
+0.1%
$64.90
+21.8%
+34.9%$15.95B$12.44B42.968,000News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↑
EVR
Evercore
4.6878 of 5 stars
$321.36
-1.2%
$284.29
-11.5%
+36.2%$12.41B$2.98B29.212,380Analyst Downgrade
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
4.6039 of 5 stars
$745.48
-0.8%
$660.00
-11.5%
+54.1%$225.60B$126.85B16.4346,500Trending News
HLI
Houlihan Lokey
4.8786 of 5 stars
$199.40
-0.7%
$206.40
+3.5%
+32.2%$14.01B$2.39B33.571,100News Coverage
Positive News
Ex-Dividend
JEF
Jefferies Financial Group
4.2541 of 5 stars
$64.89
-0.9%
$66.00
+1.7%
+13.1%$13.38B$7.03B24.497,822Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
LAZ
Lazard
4.0127 of 5 stars
$57.15
-1.0%
$52.33
-8.4%
+18.9%$6.45B$3.05B19.713,263
MC
Moelis & Company
3.4213 of 5 stars
$71.97
-1.3%
$66.00
-8.3%
+11.3%$5.66B$1.19B28.331,309Positive News
MS
Morgan Stanley
4.557 of 5 stars
$150.50
+0.2%
$138.25
-8.1%
+53.5%$240.22B$107.29B17.0480,000Trending News
SF
Stifel Financial
4.3536 of 5 stars
$115.37
-0.9%
$115.78
+0.3%
+35.1%$11.78B$4.97B22.369,000News Coverage
Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Short Interest ↑

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