T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW – Get Free Report) and Greenpro Capital (NASDAQ:GRNQ – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares T. Rowe Price Group and Greenpro Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| T. Rowe Price Group | 29.26% | 20.91% | 15.68% |
| Greenpro Capital | -169.65% | -22.06% | -18.90% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for T. Rowe Price Group and Greenpro Capital, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| T. Rowe Price Group | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1.86 |
| Greenpro Capital | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
T. Rowe Price Group presently has a consensus price target of $104.23, suggesting a potential downside of 2.25%. Given T. Rowe Price Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe T. Rowe Price Group is more favorable than Greenpro Capital.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
73.4% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Greenpro Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Greenpro Capital shares are held 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.
Risk and Volatility
T. Rowe Price Group has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenpro Capital has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares T. Rowe Price Group and Greenpro Capital”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| T. Rowe Price Group | $7.31 billion | 3.11 | $2.09 billion | $9.97 | 10.70 |
| Greenpro Capital | $2.07 million | 6.02 | -$2.98 million | ($3.60) | -1.91 |
T. Rowe Price Group has higher revenue and earnings than Greenpro Capital. Greenpro Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than T. Rowe Price Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
T. Rowe Price Group beats Greenpro Capital on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About T. Rowe Price Group
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutional investors, retirement plans, financial intermediaries, and institutions. It launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a bottom-up approach. The firm utilizes in-house and external research to make its investments. It employs socially responsible investing with a focus on environmental, social, and governance issues. It makes investment in late-stage venture capital transactions and usually invests between $3 million and $5 million. The firm was previously known as T. Rowe Group, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with additional offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Owings Mills, Maryland; San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tampa, Florida; Toronto, Ontario; Hellerup, Denmark; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Zurich, Switzerland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; London, United Kingdom; Sydney, New South Wales; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Frankfurt, Shanghai, China; Germany, Madrid, Spain, Milan, Italy, Stockholm, Sweden, Melbourne, Australia, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Washington, DC.
About Greenpro Capital
Greenpro Capital Corp. provides financial consulting and corporate advisory services to small and medium-size businesses primarily in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and China. It operates in two segments, Service Business and Real Estate Business. The company offers business consulting and corporate advisory services, including cross-border listing advisory, tax planning, bookkeeping, advisory and transaction, record management, and accounting outsourcing services; and venture capital related education and support services. It is also involved in the acquisition and rental of real estate properties held for investment and sale; and provision of company formation advisory, company secretarial, and financial services. In addition, the company provides corporate advisory services, such as company review, bank loan advisory, and bank products analysis, as well as loan and credit, and insurance brokerage services; and wealth planning, administration, charity, tax and legal, trusteeship and risk management, investment planning and management, and business support services, as well as asset protection and management, consolidation, and performance monitoring services. The company was formerly known as Greenpro, Inc. and changed its name to Greenpro Capital Corp. in May 2015. Greenpro Capital Corp. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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