APAM vs. MORN, BEN, HLI, EVR, IVZ, HLNE, JHG, AMG, LAZ, and STEP
Should you be buying Artisan Partners Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artisan Partners Asset Management include Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Lazard (LAZ), and StepStone Group (STEP). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Artisan Partners Asset Management received 48 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave Artisan Partners Asset Management an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 20 more articles in the media than Artisan Partners Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Morningstar and 2 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management. Morningstar's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's score of 0.58 indicating that Artisan Partners Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of Morningstar shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by company 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.
Morningstar currently has a consensus price target of $320.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.59%. Artisan Partners Asset Management has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.06%. Given Artisan Partners Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a net margin of 22.99% compared to Artisan Partners Asset Management's net margin of 10.13%. Morningstar's return on equity of 72.77% beat Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity.
Morningstar has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Morningstar. Artisan Partners Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Morningstar pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 74.4% 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. Morningstar has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Summary
Morningstar beats Artisan Partners Asset Management on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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