BEN vs. IVZ, AMG, CNS, AMP, CG, HLI, TPG, BAM, EVR, and HLNE
Should you be buying Franklin Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Resources include Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), The Carlyle Group (CG), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), TPG (TPG), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Evercore (EVR), and Hamilton Lane (HLNE). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Invesco (NYSE:IVZ) and Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Invesco presently has a consensus price target of $16.79, suggesting a potential upside of 4.36%. Franklin Resources has a consensus price target of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.62%. Given Invesco's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Franklin Resources is more favorable than Invesco.
Invesco pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Franklin Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Invesco pays out -109.3% 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. Invesco has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Franklin Resources has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Invesco has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Resources has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
66.1% of Invesco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Invesco shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of Franklin Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Invesco received 385 more outperform votes than Franklin Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Invesco an outperform vote while only 40.78% of users gave Franklin Resources an outperform vote.
Franklin Resources has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Franklin Resources' net margin of -1.74%. Invesco's return on equity of 10.82% beat Franklin Resources' return on equity.
In the previous week, Invesco had 5 more articles in the media than Franklin Resources. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Invesco and 12 mentions for Franklin Resources. Invesco's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Franklin Resources' score of 0.37 indicating that Franklin Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Franklin Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco. Invesco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Franklin Resources beats Invesco on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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