UPBD vs. AL, MGRC, PRG, CTOS, AAN, KPLT, FPAY, URI, AER, and CCCS
Should you be buying Upbound Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Upbound Group include Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), PROG (PRG), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Aaron's (AAN), Katapult (KPLT), FlexShopper (FPAY), United Rentals (URI), AerCap (AER), and CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS).
Upbound Group (NASDAQ:UPBD) and Air Lease (NYSE:AL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
90.3% of Upbound Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Upbound Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Air Lease shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Upbound Group currently has a consensus price target of $39.14, indicating a potential upside of 21.56%. Air Lease has a consensus price target of $53.80, indicating a potential upside of 16.07%. Given Upbound Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Upbound Group is more favorable than Air Lease.
Air Lease has a net margin of 21.89% compared to Upbound Group's net margin of -0.61%. Upbound Group's return on equity of 33.40% beat Air Lease's return on equity.
In the previous week, Upbound Group had 6 more articles in the media than Air Lease. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Upbound Group and 5 mentions for Air Lease. Air Lease's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Upbound Group's score of 0.74 indicating that Air Lease is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Lease has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Upbound Group. Upbound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Upbound Group pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Upbound Group pays out -321.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Lease pays out 16.9% 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. Upbound Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Air Lease received 572 more outperform votes than Upbound Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.22% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Upbound Group an outperform vote.
Upbound Group has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Lease has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Upbound Group and Air Lease tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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