Altisource Portfolio Solutions (NASDAQ: ASPS) and Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitabiliy, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Altisource Portfolio Solutions and Jones Lang LaSalle, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Altisource Portfolio Solutions | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Jones Lang LaSalle | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.67 |
Altisource Portfolio Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.27%. Jones Lang LaSalle has a consensus target price of $129.40, suggesting a potential downside of 0.99%. Given Altisource Portfolio Solutions’ higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Altisource Portfolio Solutions is more favorable than Jones Lang LaSalle.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Altisource Portfolio Solutions and Jones Lang LaSalle’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Altisource Portfolio Solutions | $987.65 million | 0.42 | $164.08 million | $0.82 | 27.34 |
| Jones Lang LaSalle | $7.08 billion | 0.84 | $648.80 million | $6.64 | 19.68 |
Jones Lang LaSalle has higher revenue and earnings than Altisource Portfolio Solutions. Jones Lang LaSalle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altisource Portfolio Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Altisource Portfolio Solutions and Jones Lang LaSalle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Altisource Portfolio Solutions | 1.72% | 102.97% | 10.70% |
| Jones Lang LaSalle | 4.28% | 12.44% | 4.99% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
57.6% of Altisource Portfolio Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Altisource Portfolio Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Jones Lang LaSalle shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dividends
Jones Lang LaSalle pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Altisource Portfolio Solutions does not pay a dividend. Jones Lang LaSalle pays out 10.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Altisource Portfolio Solutions has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Volatility and Risk
Altisource Portfolio Solutions has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jones Lang LaSalle has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Jones Lang LaSalle beats Altisource Portfolio Solutions on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Altisource Portfolio Solutions
Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. is a marketplace and transaction solutions provider for the real estate, mortgage and consumer debt industries. The Company’s business processes, vendor and electronic payment management software and behavioral science-based analytics manage outcomes for marketplace participants. It operates through three segments: Mortgage Services, Financial Services and Technology Services. The Mortgage Services segment provides loan servicers, originators, rental property investors and real estate consumers with products, services and technologies. The Financial Services segment provides collection services to debt originators and servicers and customer relationship management services. The Technology Services segment provides software and data analytics solutions that support management of mortgage and real estate activities and marketplace transactions across mortgage and real estate lifecycles and information technology infrastructure management services.
About Jones Lang LaSalle
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) is a financial and professional services company specializing in real estate. The Company operates through four business segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); Asia Pacific, and LaSalle. It offers integrated services on a local, regional and global basis to owner, occupier, investor and developer clients. It delivers various real estate services (RES) across three geographic business segments: the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Its RES is organized into five product categories: leasing; capital markets and hotels; property and facility management; project and development services, and advisory, consulting and other services. LaSalle offers clients with real estate investment products and services, such as private investments in multiple real estate property types, including office, industrial, healthcare and multifamily residential. LaSalle enables clients to invest in separate accounts focused on public real estate equities.
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