MORN vs. BEN, CG, HLI, NYT, IVZ, LM, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, and MKTW
Should you be buying Morningstar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morningstar include Franklin Resources (BEN), The Carlyle Group (CG), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), New York Times (NYT), Invesco (IVZ), Legg Mason (LM), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), and MarketWise (MKTW).
Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) and Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Morningstar currently has a consensus price target of $320.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.01%. Franklin Resources has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.17%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Franklin Resources.
Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Morningstar pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Resources pays out 70.9% 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.
57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of Morningstar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by 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.
Franklin Resources received 164 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 40.78% of users gave Franklin Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 11 more articles in the media than Franklin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Morningstar and 7 mentions for Franklin Resources. Franklin Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Morningstar's score of 0.69 indicating that Franklin Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Resources has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 10.13%. Morningstar's return on equity of 21.79% beat Franklin Resources' return on equity.
Morningstar has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Resources has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Morningstar. Franklin Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morningstar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Morningstar beats Franklin Resources on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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