CHW vs. ACD, GCG, DF, GDV, XAU, FAP, CXI, SBC, URB, and PNP
Should you be buying Chesswood Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesswood Group include Accord Financial (ACD), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Goldmoney (XAU), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Currency Exchange International (CXI), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Urbana (URB), and Pinetree Capital (PNP). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Accord Financial (TSE:ACD) and Chesswood Group (TSE:CHW) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and risk.
Accord Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Chesswood Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Accord Financial pays out -24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chesswood Group pays out -7.3% 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. Accord Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
4.7% of Chesswood Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of Accord Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.3% of Chesswood Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Chesswood Group has a consensus target price of C$7.17, indicating a potential downside of 1.83%. Given Accord Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chesswood Group is more favorable than Accord Financial.
Accord Financial has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesswood Group has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chesswood Group has a net margin of -28.21% compared to Chesswood Group's net margin of -73.38%. Chesswood Group's return on equity of -15.77% beat Accord Financial's return on equity.
Chesswood Group received 11 more outperform votes than Accord Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.09% of users gave Accord Financial an outperform vote while only 65.64% of users gave Chesswood Group an outperform vote.
Accord Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chesswood Group. Chesswood Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accord Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chesswood Group had 1 more articles in the media than Accord Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Chesswood Group and 0 mentions for Accord Financial. Accord Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Chesswood Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Chesswood Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Accord Financial and Chesswood Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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