LPLA vs. TROW, TW, NDAQ, SNEX, AMTD, CME, ICE, WRB, HBAN, and PFG
Should you be buying LPL Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LPL Financial include T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), Nasdaq (NDAQ), StoneX Group (SNEX), TD Ameritrade (AMTD), CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), and Principal Financial Group (PFG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
LPL Financial (NASDAQ:LPLA) and T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
LPL Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. T. Rowe Price Group pays an annual dividend of $4.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. LPL Financial pays out 9.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. T. Rowe Price Group pays out 58.9% 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.
T. Rowe Price Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LPL Financial. T. Rowe Price Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LPL Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.7% of LPL Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of LPL Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
T. Rowe Price Group has a net margin of 29.09% compared to LPL Financial's net margin of 9.71%. LPL Financial's return on equity of 55.22% beat T. Rowe Price Group's return on equity.
T. Rowe Price Group received 121 more outperform votes than LPL Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.32% of users gave LPL Financial an outperform vote while only 52.52% of users gave T. Rowe Price Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LPL Financial had 1 more articles in the media than T. Rowe Price Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for LPL Financial and 9 mentions for T. Rowe Price Group. LPL Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat T. Rowe Price Group's score of 1.18 indicating that LPL Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LPL Financial presently has a consensus price target of $276.20, indicating a potential upside of 3.15%. T. Rowe Price Group has a consensus price target of $112.10, indicating a potential downside of 3.99%. Given LPL Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe LPL Financial is more favorable than T. Rowe Price Group.
LPL Financial has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, T. Rowe Price Group has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
LPL Financial beats T. Rowe Price Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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