AB vs. APAM, CNS, STEP, MC, VCTR, LAZ, FHI, AMK, DBRG, and PJT Should you be buying AllianceBernstein stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AllianceBernstein include Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), Victory Capital (VCTR), Lazard (LAZ), Federated Hermes (FHI), AssetMark Financial (AMK), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), and PJT Partners (PJT). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM ) and AllianceBernstein (NYSE:AB ) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AllianceBernstein has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.3% of AllianceBernstein shares are held by institutional investors. 18.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of AllianceBernstein shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Artisan Partners Asset Management currently has a consensus target price of $43.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.10%. AllianceBernstein has a consensus target price of $41.19, suggesting a potential upside of 21.68%. Given Artisan Partners Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AllianceBernstein is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a net margin of 22.99% compared to Artisan Partners Asset Management's net margin of 6.47%. AllianceBernstein's return on equity of 72.77% beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity.
AllianceBernstein received 53 more outperform votes than Artisan Partners Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.80% of users gave AllianceBernstein an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave Artisan Partners Asset Management an outperform vote.
Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. AllianceBernstein pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 74.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AllianceBernstein pays out 121.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
AllianceBernstein has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Artisan Partners Asset Management. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AllianceBernstein, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Artisan Partners Asset Management had 3 more articles in the media than AllianceBernstein. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management and 8 mentions for AllianceBernstein. Artisan Partners Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat AllianceBernstein's score of 1.19 indicating that AllianceBernstein is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary Artisan Partners Asset Management and AllianceBernstein tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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