EVR vs. LAZ, IVZ, HLNE, HLI, JHG, AMG, MC, STEP, AB, and APAM
Should you be buying Evercore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Evercore include Lazard (LAZ), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Moelis & Company (MC), StepStone Group (STEP), AllianceBernstein (AB), and Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) and Evercore (NYSE:EVR) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Lazard pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Evercore pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Lazard pays out -571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Evercore pays out 47.7% 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. Evercore has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Lazard is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lazard presently has a consensus price target of $45.67, indicating a potential upside of 11.90%. Evercore has a consensus price target of $180.67, indicating a potential downside of 11.21%. Given Evercore's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lazard is more favorable than Evercore.
54.8% of Lazard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Evercore shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Lazard shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Evercore shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Lazard had 16 more articles in the media than Evercore. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Lazard and 0 mentions for Evercore. Evercore's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Lazard's score of 0.00 indicating that Lazard is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lazard has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evercore has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Evercore has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lazard. Lazard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evercore, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lazard received 109 more outperform votes than Evercore when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.61% of users gave Lazard an outperform vote while only 63.99% of users gave Evercore an outperform vote.
Evercore has a net margin of 10.53% compared to Evercore's net margin of -0.63%. Evercore's return on equity of 37.27% beat Lazard's return on equity.
Summary
Lazard beats Evercore on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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