CG vs. TPG, BEN, BAM, MORN, HLI, EVR, IVZ, HLNE, JHG, and AMG
Should you be buying The Carlyle Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Carlyle Group include TPG (TPG), Franklin Resources (BEN), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Morningstar (MORN), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), and Affiliated Managers Group (AMG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
TPG (NASDAQ:TPG) and The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
TPG presently has a consensus price target of $42.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.91%. The Carlyle Group has a consensus price target of $45.60, suggesting a potential upside of 5.92%. Given TPG's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe The Carlyle Group is more favorable than TPG.
TPG pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. The Carlyle Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. TPG pays out -1,257.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Carlyle Group pays out -78.2% 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. The Carlyle Group has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. TPG is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
TPG has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Carlyle Group has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Carlyle Group had 5 more articles in the media than TPG. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The Carlyle Group and 5 mentions for TPG. TPG's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat The Carlyle Group's score of 0.50 indicating that The Carlyle Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TPG has higher earnings, but lower revenue than The Carlyle Group. TPG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Carlyle Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TPG has a net margin of 2.74% compared to TPG's net margin of -23.04%. TPG's return on equity of 23.92% beat The Carlyle Group's return on equity.
86.8% of TPG shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of The Carlyle Group shares are held by institutional investors. 76.5% of TPG shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of The Carlyle Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
The Carlyle Group received 570 more outperform votes than TPG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.00% of users gave The Carlyle Group an outperform vote while only 13.11% of users gave TPG an outperform vote.
Summary
The Carlyle Group beats TPG on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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