WPP vs. OMC, IPG, CRTO, STGW, GRPN, HAO, SWAG, SRAX, ANTE, and ABLVW
Should you be buying WPP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WPP include Omnicom Group (OMC), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Criteo (CRTO), Stagwell (STGW), Groupon (GRPN), Haoxi Health Technology (HAO), Stran & Company, Inc. (SWAG), SRAX (SRAX), AirNet Technology (ANTE), and Able View Global (ABLVW).
WPP (NYSE:WPP) and Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
WPP presently has a consensus target price of $46.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.11%. Omnicom Group has a consensus target price of $104.40, suggesting a potential upside of 12.31%. Given Omnicom Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Omnicom Group is more favorable than WPP.
Omnicom Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WPP.
In the previous week, Omnicom Group had 4 more articles in the media than WPP. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Omnicom Group and 5 mentions for WPP. Omnicom Group's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat WPP's score of 0.66 indicating that Omnicom Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
4.3% of WPP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Omnicom Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of WPP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Omnicom Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Omnicom Group received 45 more outperform votes than WPP when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.18% of users gave WPP an outperform vote while only 49.14% of users gave Omnicom Group an outperform vote.
WPP has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicom Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Omnicom Group has a net margin of 9.96% compared to WPP's net margin of 0.00%. Omnicom Group's return on equity of 38.23% beat WPP's return on equity.
WPP pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Omnicom Group pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Omnicom Group pays out 37.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Omnicom Group beats WPP on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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