ORIX (IX) Competitors

UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) and ORIX (NYSE:IX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Is UBS or IX a better dividend stock?

UBS Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. ORIX pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. UBS Group pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ORIX pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in UBS or IX?

UBS Group received 468 more outperform votes than ORIX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.69% of users gave ORIX an outperform vote while only 55.61% of users gave UBS Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
UBS Group	Outperform Votes 659 55.61%	Underperform Votes 526 44.39%
ORIX	Outperform Votes 191 59.69%	Underperform Votes 129 40.31%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of UBS or IX?

1.7% of ORIX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of UBS Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of ORIX 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.

Do analysts prefer UBS or IX?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UBS Group	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
ORIX	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has higher valuation & earnings, UBS or IX?

UBS Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ORIX. ORIX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UBS Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UBS Group	$45.33B	2.24	$27.85B	$1.20	26.36
ORIX	$1.82T	0.01	$2.39B	$11.60	9.30

Which has more risk and volatility, UBS or IX?

UBS Group has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ORIX has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is UBS or IX more profitable?

ORIX has a net margin of 14.08% compared to UBS Group's net margin of 5.13%. ORIX's return on equity of 10.01% beat UBS Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UBS Group	5.13%	4.69%	0.25%
ORIX	14.08%	10.01%	2.46%

Does the media favor UBS or IX?

In the previous week, UBS Group had 14 more articles in the media than ORIX. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for UBS Group and 7 mentions for ORIX. UBS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat ORIX's score of 0.74 indicating that UBS Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
UBS Group	10 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ORIX	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

UBS Group beats ORIX on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.