LAMR vs. CONE, VER, REG, STOR, OHI, OMC, IPG, CCO, NCMI, and GOOG
Should you be buying Lamar Advertising stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lamar Advertising include CyrusOne (CONE), VEREIT (VER), Regency Centers (REG), STORE Capital (STOR), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Omnicom Group (OMC), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), and Alphabet (GOOG).
CyrusOne (NASDAQ:CONE) and Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ:LAMR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
CyrusOne has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lamar Advertising has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CyrusOne received 342 more outperform votes than Lamar Advertising when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.50% of users gave CyrusOne an outperform vote while only 59.14% of users gave Lamar Advertising an outperform vote.
CyrusOne pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Lamar Advertising pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. CyrusOne pays out 990.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lamar Advertising pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lamar Advertising has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Lamar Advertising is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Lamar Advertising has a net margin of 23.29% compared to Lamar Advertising's net margin of 2.10%. CyrusOne's return on equity of 41.86% beat Lamar Advertising's return on equity.
87.9% of CyrusOne shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of Lamar Advertising shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of CyrusOne shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Lamar Advertising shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lamar Advertising had 5 more articles in the media than CyrusOne. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lamar Advertising and 0 mentions for CyrusOne. CyrusOne's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Lamar Advertising's score of 0.45 indicating that Lamar Advertising is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lamar Advertising has higher revenue and earnings than CyrusOne. Lamar Advertising is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CyrusOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lamar Advertising has a consensus target price of $109.50, indicating a potential downside of 5.90%. Given CyrusOne's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lamar Advertising is more favorable than CyrusOne.
Summary
Lamar Advertising beats CyrusOne on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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