BRDG vs. CNS, APAM, VCTR, FHI, AMK, PJT, DBRG, HPH, GCMG, and VRTS
Should you be buying Bridge Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridge Investment Group include Cohen & Steers (CNS), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Victory Capital (VCTR), Federated Hermes (FHI), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Highest Performances (HPH), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), and Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) and Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Cohen & Steers currently has a consensus target price of $67.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.68%. Bridge Investment Group has a consensus target price of $10.20, indicating a potential upside of 31.78%. Given Cohen & Steers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bridge Investment Group is more favorable than Cohen & Steers.
Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cohen & Steers has a net margin of 26.27% compared to Cohen & Steers' net margin of 0.25%. Bridge Investment Group's return on equity of 36.67% beat Cohen & Steers' return on equity.
Cohen & Steers received 202 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote while only 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote.
Cohen & Steers has higher revenue and earnings than Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cohen & Steers had 5 more articles in the media than Bridge Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cohen & Steers and 4 mentions for Bridge Investment Group. Cohen & Steers' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Bridge Investment Group's score of 0.61 indicating that Bridge Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 47.6% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Cohen & Steers pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bridge Investment Group pays out -116.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cohen & Steers has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Bridge Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Cohen & Steers beats Bridge Investment Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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