STEP vs. MC, LAZ, AB, APAM, CNS, VCTR, AMG, JHG, FHI, and AMK
Should you be buying StepStone Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StepStone Group include Moelis & Company (MC), Lazard (LAZ), AllianceBernstein (AB), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Federated Hermes (FHI), and AssetMark Financial (AMK). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) and Moelis & Company (NYSE:MC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
StepStone Group has higher revenue and earnings than Moelis & Company. Moelis & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than StepStone Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
StepStone Group presently has a consensus target price of $35.21, suggesting a potential downside of 5.64%. Moelis & Company has a consensus target price of $50.80, suggesting a potential downside of 10.34%. Given StepStone Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe StepStone Group is more favorable than Moelis & Company.
StepStone Group pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Moelis & Company pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. StepStone Group pays out 93.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Moelis & Company pays out -1,263.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Moelis & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
StepStone Group has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Moelis & Company has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Moelis & Company received 285 more outperform votes than StepStone Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.85% of users gave Moelis & Company an outperform vote while only 32.35% of users gave StepStone Group an outperform vote.
55.5% of StepStone Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Moelis & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.9% of StepStone Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Moelis & Company shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Moelis & Company had 13 more articles in the media than StepStone Group. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Moelis & Company and 4 mentions for StepStone Group. StepStone Group's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Moelis & Company's score of 0.57 indicating that StepStone Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
StepStone Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Moelis & Company's net margin of -1.33%. StepStone Group's return on equity of 7.94% beat Moelis & Company's return on equity.
Summary
StepStone Group beats Moelis & Company on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding STEP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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