EQH vs. RYAN, ERIE, BRP, BRO, WTW, UDR, KIM, ARCC, WPC, and HST
Should you be buying Equitable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equitable include Ryan Specialty (RYAN), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BRP), Brown & Brown (BRO), Willis Towers Watson Public (WTW), UDR (UDR), Kimco Realty (KIM), Ares Capital (ARCC), W. P. Carey (WPC), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ryan Specialty (NYSE:RYAN) and Equitable (NYSE:EQH) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Equitable had 3 more articles in the media than Ryan Specialty. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Equitable and 5 mentions for Ryan Specialty. Equitable's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Ryan Specialty's score of 0.98 indicating that Ryan Specialty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.8% of Ryan Specialty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Equitable shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of Ryan Specialty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Equitable shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryan Specialty has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equitable has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ryan Specialty has a net margin of 9.15% compared to Ryan Specialty's net margin of 0.00%. Equitable's return on equity of 45.87% beat Ryan Specialty's return on equity.
Ryan Specialty pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Equitable pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Ryan Specialty pays out 83.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equitable pays out 27.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equitable has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Equitable is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Equitable has higher revenue and earnings than Ryan Specialty. Equitable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryan Specialty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ryan Specialty currently has a consensus price target of $54.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.11%. Equitable has a consensus price target of $40.10, suggesting a potential downside of 1.55%. Given Equitable's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ryan Specialty is more favorable than Equitable.
Equitable received 234 more outperform votes than Ryan Specialty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.47% of users gave Equitable an outperform vote while only 37.70% of users gave Ryan Specialty an outperform vote.
Summary
Equitable beats Ryan Specialty on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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