PJT Partners (PJT) Competitors

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

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of LINE or PJT?

89.2% of PJT Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Lineage shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of PJT Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is LINE or PJT a better dividend stock?

Lineage pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. PJT Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. PJT Partners pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media prefer LINE or PJT?

In the previous week, Lineage had 13 more articles in the media than PJT Partners. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Lineage and 4 mentions for PJT Partners. PJT Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Lineage's score of 0.18 indicating that PJT Partners 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)	2 Neutral mention(s)	6 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
PJT Partners	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LINE or PJT?

PJT Partners received 237 more outperform votes than Lineage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Lineage an outperform vote while only 63.59% of users gave PJT Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Lineage	Outperform Votes 18 66.67%	Underperform Votes 9 33.33%
PJT Partners	Outperform Votes 255 63.59%	Underperform Votes 146 36.41%

Do analysts rate LINE or PJT?

Lineage presently has a consensus target price of $90.75, indicating a potential upside of 42.85%. PJT Partners has a consensus target price of $123.80, indicating a potential downside of 21.31%. Given Lineage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lineage is more favorable than PJT Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lineage	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.76
PJT Partners	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.83

Which has better earnings and valuation, LINE or PJT?

PJT Partners 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	2.71	-$77.40M	N/A	N/A
PJT Partners	$1.15B	3.23	$145.68M	$3.94	39.93

Is LINE or PJT more profitable?

PJT Partners has a net margin of 8.03% compared to Lineage's net margin of -12.18%. PJT Partners' return on equity of 18.79% beat Lineage's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lineage	-12.18%	-9.89%	-3.51%
PJT Partners	8.03%	18.79%	11.24%

Summary

Lineage and PJT Partners tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.