APAM vs. MORN, BEN, HLI, EVR, IVZ, HLNE, JHG, AMG, STEP, and LAZ
Should you be buying Artisan Partners Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artisan Partners Asset Management include Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), StepStone Group (STEP), and Lazard (LAZ). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Artisan Partners Asset Management (NYSE:APAM) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morningstar has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Artisan Partners Asset Management received 48 more outperform votes than Morningstar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.52% of users gave Morningstar an outperform vote while only 52.88% of users gave Artisan Partners Asset Management an outperform vote.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has a net margin of 22.99% compared to Morningstar's net margin of 10.13%. Artisan Partners Asset Management's return on equity of 72.77% beat Morningstar's return on equity.
Artisan Partners Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Morningstar pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Artisan Partners Asset Management pays out 74.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morningstar pays out 32.7% 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.
86.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Morningstar shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.5% of Artisan Partners Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.7% of Morningstar shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Morningstar had 10 more articles in the media than Artisan Partners Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Morningstar and 3 mentions for Artisan Partners Asset Management. Artisan Partners Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Morningstar's score of 0.85 indicating that Artisan Partners Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Artisan Partners Asset Management currently has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.82%. Morningstar has a consensus price target of $320.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.67%. Given Morningstar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Morningstar is more favorable than Artisan Partners Asset Management.
Artisan Partners Asset Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Morningstar. Artisan Partners Asset Management 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 Artisan Partners Asset Management on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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