PX vs. BSIG, BRDG, NOAH, ABL, BBDC, PAX, FDUS, VINP, ALTI, and DHIL
Should you be buying Praxair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Praxair include BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Noah (NOAH), Abacus Life (ABL), Barings BDC (BBDC), Patria Investments (PAX), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), and Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
BrightSphere Investment Group (NYSE:BSIG) and Praxair (NYSE:PX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
BrightSphere Investment Group has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Praxair has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Praxair received 386 more outperform votes than BrightSphere Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.92% of users gave Praxair an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave BrightSphere Investment Group an outperform vote.
BrightSphere Investment Group presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.17%. Praxair has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.13%. Given BrightSphere Investment Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Praxair is more favorable than BrightSphere Investment Group.
BrightSphere Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Praxair pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. BrightSphere Investment Group pays out 2.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Praxair pays out -650.0% 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. Praxair has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Praxair is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
BrightSphere Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Praxair. Praxair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSphere Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BrightSphere Investment Group has a net margin of 15.53% compared to BrightSphere Investment Group's net margin of -1.00%. Praxair's return on equity of 438.16% beat BrightSphere Investment Group's return on equity.
98.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of Praxair shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.9% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of Praxair shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Praxair had 11 more articles in the media than BrightSphere Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Praxair and 1 mentions for BrightSphere Investment Group. Praxair's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat BrightSphere Investment Group's score of 0.00 indicating that BrightSphere Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BrightSphere Investment Group beats Praxair on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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