ACD vs. CRWN, CHW, PWI, LFE, URB, PNP, XTD, XAU, FAP, and GCG
Should you be buying Accord Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accord Financial include Crown Capital Partners (CRWN), Chesswood Group (CHW), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Urbana (URB), Pinetree Capital (PNP), TDb Split (XTD), Goldmoney (XAU), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), and Guardian Capital Group (GCG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Accord Financial (TSE:ACD) and Crown Capital Partners (TSE:CRWN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Crown Capital Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Accord Financial. Crown Capital Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accord Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accord Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share. Crown Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Accord Financial pays out -17.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown Capital Partners pays out -27.8% 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. Crown Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Accord Financial received 58 more outperform votes than Crown Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.09% of users gave Accord Financial an outperform vote while only 63.52% of users gave Crown Capital Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Accord Financial and Accord Financial both had 2 articles in the media. Crown Capital Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Accord Financial's score of -0.20 indicating that Crown Capital Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown Capital Partners has a net margin of -16.75% compared to Accord Financial's net margin of -50.66%. Accord Financial's return on equity of -15.77% beat Crown Capital Partners' return on equity.
Crown Capital Partners has a consensus price target of C$8.00, indicating a potential upside of 64.95%.
31.7% of Crown Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of Accord Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of Crown Capital Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Accord Financial has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Capital Partners has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Crown Capital Partners beats Accord Financial on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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