LPLA vs. RJF, TW, TROW, SF, EVR, NDAQ, LAZ, BGC, PIPR, and SNEX
Should you be buying LPL Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LPL Financial include Raymond James (RJF), Tradeweb Markets (TW), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Stifel Financial (SF), Evercore (EVR), Nasdaq (NDAQ), Lazard (LAZ), BGC Group (BGC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), and StoneX Group (SNEX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Raymond James (NYSE:RJF) and LPL Financial (NASDAQ:LPLA) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Raymond James presently has a consensus price target of $126.22, indicating a potential upside of 2.83%. LPL Financial has a consensus price target of $276.20, indicating a potential downside of 3.50%. Given LPL Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Raymond James is more favorable than LPL Financial.
Raymond James has higher revenue and earnings than LPL Financial. Raymond James is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LPL Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LPL Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Raymond James. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for LPL Financial and 8 mentions for Raymond James. LPL Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Raymond James' score of 0.30 indicating that Raymond James is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Raymond James has a net margin of 12.72% compared to Raymond James' net margin of 9.71%. Raymond James' return on equity of 55.22% beat LPL Financial's return on equity.
Raymond James received 168 more outperform votes than LPL Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.86% of users gave Raymond James an outperform vote while only 58.32% of users gave LPL Financial an outperform vote.
Raymond James has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LPL Financial has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
83.8% of Raymond James shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of LPL Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of Raymond James shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of LPL Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Raymond James pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. LPL Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Raymond James pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LPL Financial pays out 9.1% 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. Raymond James has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and LPL Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Raymond James and LPL Financial tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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