BAM vs. IGM, ONEX, POW, X, IAG, FFH, DFY, NA, GWO, and IFC
Should you be buying Brookfield Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Asset Management include IGM Financial (IGM), Onex (ONEX), Power Co. of Canada (POW), TMX Group (X), iA Financial (IAG), Fairfax Financial (FFH), Definity Financial (DFY), National Bank of Canada (NA), Great-West Lifeco (GWO), and Intact Financial (IFC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
IGM Financial (TSE:IGM) and Brookfield Asset Management (TSE:BAM) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
IGM Financial received 62 more outperform votes than Brookfield Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.59% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote while only 45.12% of users gave IGM Financial an outperform vote.
8.1% of IGM Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.2% of IGM Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
IGM Financial pays an annual dividend of C$2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. IGM Financial pays out 69.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 133.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IGM Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield Asset Management has a net margin of 45.27% compared to Brookfield Asset Management's net margin of 27.67%. IGM Financial's return on equity of 18.68% beat Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity.
Brookfield Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than IGM Financial. IGM Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IGM Financial currently has a consensus target price of C$44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.93%. Given Brookfield Asset Management's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IGM Financial is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.
In the previous week, IGM Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Brookfield Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for IGM Financial and 11 mentions for Brookfield Asset Management. IGM Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Brookfield Asset Management's score of 0.75 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Brookfield Asset Management beats IGM Financial on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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