AER vs. RPRX, SOFI, CCCS, TRTN, URI, AL, MGRC, UPBD, PRG, and CTOS
Should you be buying AerCap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AerCap include Royalty Pharma (RPRX), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS), Triton International (TRTN), United Rentals (URI), Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Upbound Group (UPBD), PROG (PRG), and Custom Truck One Source (CTOS).
Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ:RPRX) and AerCap (NYSE:AER) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
AerCap has a net margin of 42.78% compared to AerCap's net margin of 35.70%. AerCap's return on equity of 22.94% beat Royalty Pharma's return on equity.
54.4% of Royalty Pharma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.4% of AerCap shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.9% of Royalty Pharma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AerCap shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AerCap received 232 more outperform votes than Royalty Pharma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.36% of users gave AerCap an outperform vote while only 67.96% of users gave Royalty Pharma an outperform vote.
Royalty Pharma pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. AerCap pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Royalty Pharma pays out 62.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AerCap pays out 6.5% 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. Royalty Pharma has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Royalty Pharma is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
AerCap has higher revenue and earnings than Royalty Pharma. AerCap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royalty Pharma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royalty Pharma has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AerCap has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Royalty Pharma had 3 more articles in the media than AerCap. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Royalty Pharma and 6 mentions for AerCap. AerCap's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Royalty Pharma's score of 0.70 indicating that Royalty Pharma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royalty Pharma currently has a consensus target price of $46.75, suggesting a potential upside of 70.56%. AerCap has a consensus target price of $96.88, suggesting a potential upside of 4.49%. Given AerCap's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Royalty Pharma is more favorable than AerCap.
Summary
Royalty Pharma and AerCap tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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