DBRG vs. EVR, IVZ, HLNE, JHG, AMG, LAZ, STEP, MC, AB, and APAM
Should you be buying DigitalBridge Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DigitalBridge Group include Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Lazard (LAZ), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), and Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Evercore (NYSE:EVR) and DigitalBridge Group (NYSE:DBRG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Evercore presently has a consensus target price of $180.67, indicating a potential downside of 10.98%. DigitalBridge Group has a consensus target price of $21.25, indicating a potential upside of 55.79%. Given Evercore's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DigitalBridge Group is more favorable than Evercore.
86.2% of Evercore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of DigitalBridge Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Evercore shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of DigitalBridge Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Evercore has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DigitalBridge Group has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Evercore received 489 more outperform votes than DigitalBridge Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.88% of users gave Evercore an outperform vote while only 43.14% of users gave DigitalBridge Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Evercore had 2 more articles in the media than DigitalBridge Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Evercore and 3 mentions for DigitalBridge Group. Evercore's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat DigitalBridge Group's score of 0.04 indicating that DigitalBridge Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DigitalBridge Group has a net margin of 26.64% compared to DigitalBridge Group's net margin of 10.53%. DigitalBridge Group's return on equity of 16.53% beat Evercore's return on equity.
Evercore pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. DigitalBridge Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Evercore pays out 47.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DigitalBridge Group pays out 2.6% 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. Evercore has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Evercore is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Evercore has higher revenue and earnings than DigitalBridge Group. DigitalBridge Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evercore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Evercore beats DigitalBridge Group on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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