Federated Hermes (FHI) Competitors

Lineage (NASDAQ:LINE) and Federated Hermes (NYSE:FHI) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer LINE or FHI?

Lineage presently has a consensus price target of $88.50, indicating a potential upside of 51.10%. Federated Hermes has a consensus price target of $43.33, indicating a potential upside of 5.56%. Given Lineage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lineage is more favorable than Federated Hermes.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lineage	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
Federated Hermes	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is LINE or FHI a better dividend stock?

Lineage pays an annual dividend of $2.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Federated Hermes pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Federated Hermes pays out 39.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media prefer LINE or FHI?

In the previous week, Lineage had 8 more articles in the media than Federated Hermes. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lineage and 4 mentions for Federated Hermes. Federated Hermes' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Lineage's score of 0.39 indicating that Federated Hermes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Lineage	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Federated Hermes	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has better earnings & valuation, LINE or FHI?

Federated Hermes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lineage.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lineage	$5.33B	2.51	-$77.40M	N/A	N/A
Federated Hermes	$1.60B	2.10	$298.98M	$3.11	13.20

Is LINE or FHI more profitable?

Federated Hermes has a net margin of 16.62% compared to Lineage's net margin of -12.18%. Federated Hermes' return on equity of 29.85% beat Lineage's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lineage	-12.18%	-9.89%	-3.51%
Federated Hermes	16.62%	29.85%	16.05%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in LINE or FHI?

75.9% of Federated Hermes shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Lineage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Federated Hermes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LINE or FHI?

Federated Hermes received 13 more outperform votes than Lineage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave Lineage an outperform vote while only 34.41% of users gave Federated Hermes an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Lineage	Outperform Votes 19 65.52%	Underperform Votes 10 34.48%
Federated Hermes	Outperform Votes 32 34.41%	Underperform Votes 61 65.59%

Summary

Lineage beats Federated Hermes on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.