Since CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. (NYSE:CORR) and The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) are part of the Asset Management industry, they are influenced by compare. The influences particularly affect the profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation of both companies.

Earnings & Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.	89.23M	5.37	34.16M	1.82	20.01
The Blackstone Group L.P.	6.67B	6.15	1.54B	2.25	15.01

Demonstrates CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. and The Blackstone Group L.P. earnings per share, top-line revenue and valuation. The Blackstone Group L.P. is observed to has higher revenue and earnings than CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. The business with a higher price-to-earnings ratio is presently more expensive of the two stocks. CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.’s current price-to-earnings ratio is higher than that of The Blackstone Group L.P., which means that it is the expensive of the two.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. and The Blackstone Group L.P.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.	38.28%	6.7%	3.5%
The Blackstone Group L.P.	23.09%	21.4%	4.7%

Volatility and Risk

CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. is 60.00% more volatile than S&P 500 because the stock has a beta of 1.6. Competitively, The Blackstone Group L.P. is 40.00% more volatile than S&P 500, because of the 1.4 beta.

Dividends

CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. pays out $3 per share annually while its annual dividend yield is 7.93%. Meanwhile, The Blackstone Group L.P.’s annual dividend is $1.85 per share and it also boasts of a 5.21% dividend yield.

Analyst Recommendations

CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. and The Blackstone Group L.P. Recommendations and Ratings are available on the next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.	0	0	1	3.00
The Blackstone Group L.P.	0	1	3	2.75

The consensus target price of CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. is $45, with potential upside of 20.26%. Meanwhile, The Blackstone Group L.P.’s consensus target price is $38.25, while its potential upside is 6.87%. The information presented earlier suggests that CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. looks more robust than The Blackstone Group L.P. as far as analyst view.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

The shares of both CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. and The Blackstone Group L.P. are owned by institutional investors at 75.1% and 52.1% respectively. About 0.2% of CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.’s share are held by insiders. Competitively, The Blackstone Group L.P. has 0.1% of it’s share held by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.	0.19%	1.42%	-1.55%	-4.4%	-2.71%	9.79%
The Blackstone Group L.P.	-0.59%	0%	-1.17%	-8.72%	0.39%	13.05%

For the past year CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc.’s stock price has smaller growth than The Blackstone Group L.P.

Summary

The Blackstone Group L.P. beats CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. on 9 of the 16 factors.

CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust externally managed by Corridor InfraTrust Management, LLC. The trust primarily owns midstream and downstream U.S. energy infrastructure assets subject to long-term triple net participating leases with energy companies. The assets include pipelines, storage tanks, transmission lines and gathering systems. It was previously known as Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. was formed on September 8, 2005 and is domiciled in the United States.