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Should you be buying Dividend 15 Split Corp. II stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dividend 15 Split Corp. II include Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Aimia (AIM), Urbana (URB), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Canadian Banc (BK), and Life & Banc Split (LBS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (TSE:DF) and Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Guardian Capital Group has a consensus price target of C$53.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.32%. Given Guardian Capital Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Dividend 15 Split Corp. II.
Guardian Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Dividend 15 Split Corp. II. Dividend 15 Split Corp. II is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guardian Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.4% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 77.1% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Dividend 15 Split Corp. II and Dividend 15 Split Corp. II both had 1 articles in the media. Dividend 15 Split Corp. II's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Guardian Capital Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Dividend 15 Split Corp. II pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 26.5%. Guardian Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Dividend 15 Split Corp. II pays out -400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Guardian Capital Group pays out 37.1% 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. Dividend 15 Split Corp. II is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 233.40% compared to Dividend 15 Split Corp. II's net margin of 0.00%. Guardian Capital Group's return on equity of 10.09% beat Dividend 15 Split Corp. II's return on equity.
Guardian Capital Group received 166 more outperform votes than Dividend 15 Split Corp. II when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Dividend 15 Split Corp. II an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Guardian Capital Group beats Dividend 15 Split Corp. II on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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