XP vs. JEF, SEIC, HOOD, SF, MKTX, NMR, FRHC, PIPR, VIRT, and RJF
Should you be buying XP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of XP include Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Nomura (NMR), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), and Raymond James (RJF). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
XP (NASDAQ:XP) and Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE:JEF) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
XP has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Jefferies Financial Group. XP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jefferies Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jefferies Financial Group received 476 more outperform votes than XP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.80% of users gave Jefferies Financial Group an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave XP an outperform vote.
59.2% of XP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of Jefferies Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
XP presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.26%. Jefferies Financial Group has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.37%. Given XP's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe XP is more favorable than Jefferies Financial Group.
XP has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jefferies Financial Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
XP pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Jefferies Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. XP pays out 92.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jefferies Financial Group pays out 98.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. XP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Jefferies Financial Group had 5 more articles in the media than XP. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Jefferies Financial Group and 3 mentions for XP. Jefferies Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat XP's score of 0.00 indicating that Jefferies Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
XP has a net margin of 26.25% compared to Jefferies Financial Group's net margin of 5.90%. XP's return on equity of 20.88% beat Jefferies Financial Group's return on equity.
Summary
XP beats Jefferies Financial Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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