HLNE vs. AMG, LAZ, LM, OWL, BAM, TPG, CG, MORN, BEN, and HLI
Should you be buying Hamilton Lane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hamilton Lane include Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Lazard (LAZ), Legg Mason (LM), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), The Carlyle Group (CG), Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), and Houlihan Lokey (HLI).
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) and Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE:AMG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Affiliated Managers Group has a net margin of 33.74% compared to Hamilton Lane's net margin of 25.43%. Hamilton Lane's return on equity of 31.07% beat Affiliated Managers Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Affiliated Managers Group had 2 more articles in the media than Hamilton Lane. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Affiliated Managers Group and 12 mentions for Hamilton Lane. Affiliated Managers Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Hamilton Lane's score of 0.84 indicating that Affiliated Managers Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Affiliated Managers Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hamilton Lane. Affiliated Managers Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hamilton Lane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hamilton Lane currently has a consensus price target of $114.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.16%. Affiliated Managers Group has a consensus price target of $173.80, suggesting a potential upside of 6.89%. Given Affiliated Managers Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Affiliated Managers Group is more favorable than Hamilton Lane.
Hamilton Lane has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Affiliated Managers Group has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Affiliated Managers Group received 371 more outperform votes than Hamilton Lane when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.12% of users gave Affiliated Managers Group an outperform vote while only 61.36% of users gave Hamilton Lane an outperform vote.
Hamilton Lane pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Affiliated Managers Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Hamilton Lane pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Affiliated Managers Group pays out 0.2% 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.
97.4% of Hamilton Lane shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.3% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.8% of Hamilton Lane shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
Affiliated Managers Group beats Hamilton Lane on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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