CNS vs. ARCC, BEN, SEIC, IVZ, AMG, MAIN, GBDC, PSEC, VRTS, and OCSL
Should you be buying Cohen & Steers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cohen & Steers include Ares Capital (ARCC), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), and Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Capital has a net margin of 62.77% compared to Cohen & Steers' net margin of 26.27%. Cohen & Steers' return on equity of 36.67% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.
Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Cohen & Steers pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Capital pays out 65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cohen & Steers currently has a consensus target price of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.68%. Ares Capital has a consensus target price of $21.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.32%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Cohen & Steers.
Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Cohen & Steers. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ares Capital received 171 more outperform votes than Cohen & Steers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.56% of users gave Ares Capital an outperform vote while only 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote.
51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 47.6% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Cohen & Steers had 1 more articles in the media than Ares Capital. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cohen & Steers and 7 mentions for Ares Capital. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Cohen & Steers' score of 0.61 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ares Capital beats Cohen & Steers on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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