BN vs. BMO, BNS, CM, MFC, SLF, IFC, GWO, NA, FFH, and TD
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Bank of Montreal (BMO), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Intact Financial (IFC), Great-West Lifeco (GWO), National Bank of Canada (NA), Fairfax Financial (FFH), and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Bank of Montreal (TSE:BMO) and Brookfield (TSE:BN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Bank of Montreal received 636 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 52.67% of users gave Bank of Montreal an outperform vote.
Bank of Montreal pays an annual dividend of C$6.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Brookfield pays an annual dividend of C$0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of Montreal pays out 83.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield pays out 51.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Bank of Montreal has a net margin of 17.71% compared to Bank of Montreal's net margin of 1.15%. Brookfield's return on equity of 7.28% beat Bank of Montreal's return on equity.
Bank of Montreal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield. Bank of Montreal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Montreal has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of Montreal currently has a consensus price target of C$132.39, indicating a potential upside of 3.79%. Brookfield has a consensus price target of C$44.00, indicating a potential downside of 27.20%. Given Brookfield's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bank of Montreal is more favorable than Brookfield.
54.3% of Bank of Montreal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of Brookfield shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Bank of Montreal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of Brookfield 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, Bank of Montreal and Bank of Montreal both had 4 articles in the media. Bank of Montreal's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Brookfield's score of -0.13 indicating that Brookfield is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Brookfield beats Bank of Montreal on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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