HLI vs. OWL, BAM, CG, TPG, MORN, BEN, EVR, IVZ, HLNE, and JHG
Should you be buying Houlihan Lokey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Houlihan Lokey include Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), The Carlyle Group (CG), TPG (TPG), Morningstar (MORN), Franklin Resources (BEN), Evercore (EVR), Invesco (IVZ), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), and Janus Henderson Group (JHG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Blue Owl Capital (NYSE:OWL) and Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
Blue Owl Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Houlihan Lokey pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Blue Owl Capital pays out 600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Houlihan Lokey pays out 53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Blue Owl Capital has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Houlihan Lokey has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
Blue Owl Capital has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Houlihan Lokey has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
35.9% of Blue Owl Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Houlihan Lokey shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of Blue Owl Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.0% of Houlihan Lokey shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Blue Owl Capital had 3 more articles in the media than Houlihan Lokey. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Blue Owl Capital and 6 mentions for Houlihan Lokey. Blue Owl Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Houlihan Lokey's score of 0.47 indicating that Houlihan Lokey is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Houlihan Lokey has a net margin of 14.64% compared to Houlihan Lokey's net margin of 3.84%. Houlihan Lokey's return on equity of 18.15% beat Blue Owl Capital's return on equity.
Houlihan Lokey has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Owl Capital. Houlihan Lokey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Owl Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Houlihan Lokey received 253 more outperform votes than Blue Owl Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.20% of users gave Houlihan Lokey an outperform vote while only 60.34% of users gave Blue Owl Capital an outperform vote.
Blue Owl Capital currently has a consensus price target of $20.43, suggesting a potential upside of 13.57%. Houlihan Lokey has a consensus price target of $124.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.14%. Given Houlihan Lokey's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Blue Owl Capital is more favorable than Houlihan Lokey.
Summary
Blue Owl Capital beats Houlihan Lokey on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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