ARCC vs. AMP, STT, TROW, NTRS, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, MAIN, AMG, and CNS
Should you be buying Ares Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Capital include Ameriprise Financial (AMP), State Street (STT), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Northern Trust (NTRS), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), and Cohen & Steers (CNS). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Ares Capital vs.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Ares Capital currently has a consensus target price of $22.94, suggesting a potential downside of 1.55%. Ameriprise Financial has a consensus target price of $510.44, suggesting a potential downside of 3.72%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Ameriprise Financial.
Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Ameriprise Financial pays an annual dividend of $5.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ares Capital pays out 78.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ameriprise Financial pays out 17.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameriprise Financial has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years.
Ameriprise Financial received 182 more outperform votes than Ares Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.41% of users gave Ameriprise Financial an outperform vote while only 62.56% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote.
Ameriprise Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Capital. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameriprise Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.9% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Ameriprise Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ameriprise Financial had 17 more articles in the media than Ares Capital. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Ameriprise Financial and 16 mentions for Ares Capital. Ameriprise Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Ares Capital's score of 1.18 indicating that Ameriprise Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 50.90% compared to Ameriprise Financial's net margin of 19.70%. Ameriprise Financial's return on equity of 69.35% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.
Ares Capital has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameriprise Financial has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ameriprise Financial beats Ares Capital on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ARCC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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