GS vs. MS, SCHW, RJF, LPLA, SF, EVR, LAZ, BGC, PIPR, and OPY
Should you be buying The Goldman Sachs Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Goldman Sachs Group include Morgan Stanley (MS), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Raymond James (RJF), LPL Financial (LPLA), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), Lazard (LAZ), BGC Group (BGC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), and Oppenheimer (OPY). These companies are all part of the "investment banking & brokerage" industry.
The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
71.2% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of The Goldman Sachs Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Morgan Stanley shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
The Goldman Sachs Group has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Morgan Stanley has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Goldman Sachs Group. Morgan Stanley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Goldman Sachs Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morgan Stanley has a net margin of 9.57% compared to The Goldman Sachs Group's net margin of 8.17%. Morgan Stanley's return on equity of 10.88% beat The Goldman Sachs Group's return on equity.
The Goldman Sachs Group received 42 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.94% of users gave Morgan Stanley an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave The Goldman Sachs Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, The Goldman Sachs Group had 32 more articles in the media than Morgan Stanley. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for The Goldman Sachs Group and 18 mentions for Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat The Goldman Sachs Group's score of 0.55 indicating that Morgan Stanley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Goldman Sachs Group currently has a consensus target price of $440.57, suggesting a potential downside of 3.49%. Morgan Stanley has a consensus target price of $98.30, suggesting a potential upside of 0.47%. Given Morgan Stanley's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Morgan Stanley is more favorable than The Goldman Sachs Group.
The Goldman Sachs Group pays an annual dividend of $11.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Morgan Stanley pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. The Goldman Sachs Group pays out 43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley pays out 61.9% 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.
Summary
Morgan Stanley beats The Goldman Sachs Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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