HLI vs. OWL, BAM, CG, TPG, MORN, BEN, EVR, IVZ, HLNE, and JHG
Should you be buying Houlihan Lokey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Houlihan Lokey include Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), and Janus Henderson Group (JHG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) and Blue Owl Capital (NYSE:OWL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Blue Owl Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Houlihan Lokey. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Blue Owl Capital and 6 mentions for Houlihan Lokey. Houlihan Lokey's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Blue Owl Capital's score of 0.55 indicating that Houlihan Lokey is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Houlihan Lokey has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Owl Capital has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.1% of Houlihan Lokey shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Blue Owl Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 26.0% of Houlihan Lokey shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.5% of Blue Owl Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Houlihan Lokey presently has a consensus target price of $124.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.14%. Blue Owl Capital has a consensus target price of $20.43, suggesting a potential upside of 13.57%. Given Blue Owl Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Owl Capital is more favorable than Houlihan Lokey.
Houlihan Lokey has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Owl Capital. Houlihan Lokey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Owl Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Houlihan Lokey pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Blue Owl Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Houlihan Lokey pays out 53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Blue Owl Capital pays out 600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Houlihan Lokey received 253 more outperform votes than Blue Owl Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.20% of users gave Houlihan Lokey an outperform vote while only 60.34% of users gave Blue Owl Capital an outperform vote.
Houlihan Lokey has a net margin of 14.64% compared to Blue Owl Capital's net margin of 3.84%. Blue Owl Capital's return on equity of 18.15% beat Houlihan Lokey's return on equity.
Summary
Blue Owl Capital beats Houlihan Lokey on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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