CIXXF vs. VRTS, GCMG, HPH, BBDC, PJT, DBRG, NOAH, BRDG, AMK, and BSIG
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), Highest Performances (HPH), Barings BDC (BBDC), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Noah (NOAH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), AssetMark Financial (AMK), and BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Investment Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Virtus Investment Partners has a net margin of 14.02% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -6.49%. CI Financial's return on equity of 42.97% beat Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity.
Virtus Investment Partners has a consensus price target of $246.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.94%. Given Virtus Investment Partners' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than CI Financial.
Virtus Investment Partners received 322 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.49% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, CI Financial had 5 more articles in the media than Virtus Investment Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CI Financial and 9 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners. Virtus Investment Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat CI Financial's score of 0.58 indicating that Virtus Investment Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. CI Financial pays out -67.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% 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. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats CI Financial on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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