LAMR vs. CONE, VER, REG, STOR, OHI, OMC, IPG, CCO, NCMI, and GOOG
Should you be buying Lamar Advertising stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lamar Advertising include CyrusOne (CONE), VEREIT (VER), Regency Centers (REG), STORE Capital (STOR), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Omnicom Group (OMC), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), and Alphabet (GOOG).
Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) and CyrusOne (NASDAQ:CONE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyrusOne has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. CyrusOne pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CyrusOne pays out 990.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lamar Advertising is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lamar Advertising has a net margin of 23.29% compared to CyrusOne's net margin of 2.10%. Lamar Advertising's return on equity of 41.86% beat CyrusOne's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lamar Advertising had 39 more articles in the media than CyrusOne. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Lamar Advertising and 0 mentions for CyrusOne. CyrusOne's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Lamar Advertising's score of 0.02 indicating that CyrusOne is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lamar Advertising has higher revenue and earnings than CyrusOne. Lamar Advertising is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CyrusOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CyrusOne received 343 more outperform votes than Lamar Advertising when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.63% of users gave CyrusOne an outperform vote while only 59.08% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote.
93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of CyrusOne shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CyrusOne shares are held by company 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.
Lamar Advertising presently has a consensus price target of $109.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.54%. Given Lamar Advertising's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lamar Advertising is more favorable than CyrusOne.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats CyrusOne on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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