LandBridge (LB) Competitors

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

Do analysts recommend TPG or LB?

TPG presently has a consensus price target of $58.25, indicating a potential upside of 33.23%. LandBridge has a consensus price target of $59.44, indicating a potential downside of 14.57%. Given TPG's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TPG is more favorable than LandBridge.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TPG	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
LandBridge	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is TPG or LB more profitable?

TPG has a net margin of 0.67% compared to LandBridge's net margin of 0.00%. TPG's return on equity of 24.66% beat LandBridge's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TPG	0.67%	24.66%	8.15%
LandBridge	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is TPG or LB a better dividend stock?

TPG pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. LandBridge pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. TPG pays out -481.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LandBridge pays out 11.2% 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. TPG is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, TPG or LB?

LandBridge has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TPG. TPG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LandBridge, 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
TPG	$2.54B	6.37	$23.48M	-$0.44	-99.36
LandBridge	$109.95M	46.29	$260.42M	$3.56	19.54

Does the media refer more to TPG or LB?

In the previous week, TPG had 16 more articles in the media than LandBridge. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for TPG and 5 mentions for LandBridge. LandBridge's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat TPG's score of 0.43 indicating that LandBridge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
TPG	7 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
LandBridge	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer TPG or LB?

LandBridge received 919 more outperform votes than TPG when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.16% of users gave LandBridge an outperform vote while only 26.97% of users gave TPG an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
TPG	Outperform Votes 24 26.97%	Underperform Votes 65 73.03%
LandBridge	Outperform Votes 943 59.16%	Underperform Votes 651 40.84%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in TPG or LB?

94.0% of TPG shares are owned by institutional investors. 76.5% of TPG shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of LandBridge shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

TPG beats LandBridge on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.