PRG vs. AL, MGRC, UPBD, CTOS, AAN, KPLT, EHGO, FPAY, URI, and AER
Should you be buying PROG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PROG include Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Upbound Group (UPBD), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Aaron's (AAN), Katapult (KPLT), Eshallgo (EHGO), FlexShopper (FPAY), United Rentals (URI), and AerCap (AER). These companies are all part of the "equipment rental & leasing, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PROG (NYSE:PRG) and Air Lease (NYSE:AL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, PROG had 17 more articles in the media than Air Lease. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for PROG and 9 mentions for Air Lease. PROG's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Air Lease's score of 0.35 indicating that PROG is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PROG currently has a consensus price target of $42.60, indicating a potential downside of 3.71%. Air Lease has a consensus price target of $53.80, indicating a potential upside of 9.00%. Given Air Lease's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Air Lease is more favorable than PROG.
PROG has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Lease has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PROG pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. PROG pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Lease pays out 16.9% 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. Air Lease is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Air Lease has a net margin of 21.89% compared to PROG's net margin of 4.57%. PROG's return on equity of 26.30% beat Air Lease's return on equity.
97.9% of PROG shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of Air Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of PROG shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Air Lease shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Air Lease has higher revenue and earnings than PROG. Air Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PROG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Lease received 554 more outperform votes than PROG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.22% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave PROG an outperform vote.
Summary
Air Lease beats PROG on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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