BX vs. KKR, APO, ARES, HOOD, OWL, VICI, TPL, BAM, TPG, and CBOE
Should you be buying Blackstone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackstone include KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Apollo Global Management (APO), Ares Management (ARES), Robinhood Markets (HOOD), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), VICI Properties (VICI), Texas Pacific Land (TPL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TPG (TPG), and Cboe Global Markets (CBOE). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Blackstone vs.
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) and KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
KKR & Co. Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Blackstone. KKR & Co. Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackstone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blackstone presently has a consensus target price of $172.38, indicating a potential upside of 8.96%. KKR & Co. Inc. has a consensus target price of $161.43, indicating a potential upside of 22.14%. Given KKR & Co. Inc.'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe KKR & Co. Inc. is more favorable than Blackstone.
70.0% of Blackstone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Blackstone shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Blackstone received 469 more outperform votes than KKR & Co. Inc. when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave Blackstone an outperform vote while only 63.35% of users gave KKR & Co. Inc. an outperform vote.
Blackstone has a net margin of 20.99% compared to KKR & Co. Inc.'s net margin of 14.31%. Blackstone's return on equity of 19.58% beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s return on equity.
Blackstone pays an annual dividend of $5.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. KKR & Co. Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Blackstone pays out 158.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. KKR & Co. Inc. pays out 21.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Blackstone had 5 more articles in the media than KKR & Co. Inc.. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Blackstone and 50 mentions for KKR & Co. Inc.. Blackstone's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s score of 0.72 indicating that Blackstone is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Blackstone has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR & Co. Inc. has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Blackstone beats KKR & Co. Inc. on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BX) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
