AMP vs. BEN, ARES, OWL, APO, CG, BAM, TPG, KKR, BX, and LYG
Should you be buying Ameriprise Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ameriprise Financial include Franklin Resources (BEN), Ares Management (ARES), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Apollo Global Management (APO), The Carlyle Group (CG), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Blackstone (BX), and Lloyds Banking Group (LYG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Franklin Resources pays out 65.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameriprise Financial pays out 18.4% 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. Franklin Resources has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Ameriprise Financial has increased its dividend for 19 consecutive years.
Ameriprise Financial received 141 more outperform votes than Franklin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.84% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote while only 40.93% of users gave Franklin Resources an outperform vote.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Franklin Resources. Franklin Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameriprise Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ameriprise Financial has a net margin of 19.42% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 12.30%. Franklin Resources' return on equity of 75.97% beat Ameriprise Financial's return on equity.
47.6% of Franklin Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 24.1% of Franklin Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial 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.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 23 more articles in the media than Franklin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 9 mentions for Franklin Resources. Franklin Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Ameriprise Financial's score of 0.40 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Resources has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin Resources presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.04%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus target price of $449.57, indicating a potential upside of 9.65%. Given Ameriprise Financial's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Franklin Resources is more favorable than Ameriprise Financial.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Franklin Resources on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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