CNS vs. ARCC, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, AMG, MAIN, GBDC, PSEC, VRTS, and OCSL
Should you be buying Cohen & Steers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cohen & Steers include Ares Capital (ARCC), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), and Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Ares Capital has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ares Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Cohen & Steers. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Ares Capital and 12 mentions for Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Ares Capital's score of 0.49 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
27.4% of Ares Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ares Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.0% of Cohen & Steers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Ares Capital pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cohen & Steers pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Capital has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Cohen & Steers has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Ares Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 62.77% compared to Ares Capital's net margin of 26.27%. Ares Capital's return on equity of 36.67% beat Cohen & Steers' return on equity.
Ares Capital received 171 more outperform votes than Cohen & Steers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote while only 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote.
Ares Capital currently has a consensus price target of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.18%. Cohen & Steers has a consensus price target of $67.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.68%. Given Cohen & Steers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Cohen & Steers.
Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Cohen & Steers. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ares Capital beats Cohen & Steers on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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