ARES vs. KKR, BX, APO, AMP, OWL, BAM, CG, TPG, MORN, and BEN
Should you be buying Ares Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Management include KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR), Blackstone (BX), Apollo Global Management (APO), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), Morningstar (MORN), and Franklin Resources (BEN). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) and KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
Ares Management currently has a consensus target price of $133.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.38%. KKR & Co. Inc. has a consensus target price of $94.50, indicating a potential downside of 3.56%. Given Ares Management's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ares Management is more favorable than KKR & Co. Inc..
Ares Management has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KKR & Co. Inc. has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KKR & Co. Inc. has a net margin of 19.38% compared to Ares Management's net margin of 12.86%. Ares Management's return on equity of 21.22% beat KKR & Co. Inc.'s return on equity.
KKR & Co. Inc. received 105 more outperform votes than Ares Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.13% of users gave Ares Management an outperform vote while only 63.08% of users gave KKR & Co. Inc. an outperform vote.
KKR & Co. Inc. has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Management. KKR & Co. Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, KKR & Co. Inc. had 9 more articles in the media than Ares Management. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for KKR & Co. Inc. and 12 mentions for Ares Management. KKR & Co. Inc.'s average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Ares Management's score of 0.59 indicating that KKR & Co. Inc. is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
50.0% of Ares Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Ares Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.3% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ares Management pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. KKR & Co. Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Ares Management pays out 166.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. KKR & Co. Inc. pays out 15.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
KKR & Co. Inc. beats Ares Management on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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