AGF.B vs. PBY.UN, GCG.A, FIH.U, HTA, ZBK, AD.UN, VRE, DC.A, PIC.A, and WCM.A
Should you be buying AGF Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGF Management include Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Fairfax India (FIH.U), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Dundee (DC.A), Premium Income (PIC.A), and Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Canso Credit Income Fund (TSE:PBY.UN) and AGF Management (TSE:AGF.B) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, AGF Management had 7 more articles in the media than Canso Credit Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AGF Management and 3 mentions for Canso Credit Income Fund. Canso Credit Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat AGF Management's score of -0.33 indicating that AGF Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
11.0% of Canso Credit Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of AGF Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.2% of Canso Credit Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of AGF Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AGF Management has a net margin of 18.59% compared to AGF Management's net margin of 0.00%. Canso Credit Income Fund's return on equity of 8.28% beat AGF Management's return on equity.
AGF Management has a consensus price target of C$10.75, indicating a potential upside of 34.38%. Given Canso Credit Income Fund's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AGF Management is more favorable than Canso Credit Income Fund.
AGF Management has higher revenue and earnings than Canso Credit Income Fund.
Canso Credit Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. AGF Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. AGF Management pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
AGF Management received 119 more outperform votes than Canso Credit Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.00% of users gave Canso Credit Income Fund an outperform vote while only 35.38% of users gave AGF Management an outperform vote.
Summary
AGF Management beats Canso Credit Income Fund on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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