IGM vs. ONEX, CIX, BAM, IAG, X, DFY, ELF, EQB, GSY, and CWB
Should you be buying IGM Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGM Financial include Onex (ONEX), CI Financial (CIX), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), iA Financial (IAG), TMX Group (X), Definity Financial (DFY), E-L Financial (ELF), EQB (EQB), goeasy (GSY), and Canadian Western Bank (CWB). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Onex (TSE:ONEX) and IGM Financial (TSE:IGM) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Onex has a net margin of 48.85% compared to Onex's net margin of 31.03%. Onex's return on equity of 14.46% beat IGM Financial's return on equity.
IGM Financial received 15 more outperform votes than Onex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.12% of users gave Onex an outperform vote while only 45.10% of users gave IGM Financial an outperform vote.
36.4% of Onex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of IGM Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Onex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.0% of IGM Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Onex pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. IGM Financial pays an annual dividend of C$2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Onex pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IGM Financial pays out 58.0% 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.
Onex has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IGM Financial has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IGM Financial had 11 more articles in the media than Onex. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for IGM Financial and 8 mentions for Onex. Onex's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat IGM Financial's score of 0.32 indicating that IGM Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Onex currently has a consensus price target of C$108.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.98%. IGM Financial has a consensus price target of C$42.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.09%. Given Onex's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IGM Financial is more favorable than Onex.
IGM Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Onex. IGM Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Onex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IGM Financial beats Onex on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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