LFE vs. URB, PWI, XTD, FAP, GCG, DF, GDV, PNP, ACD, and CRWN
Should you be buying Canadian Life Companies Split stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Life Companies Split include Urbana (URB), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), TDb Split (XTD), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Pinetree Capital (PNP), Accord Financial (ACD), and Crown Capital Partners (CRWN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Canadian Life Companies Split (TSE:LFE) and Urbana (TSE:URB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Urbana has a net margin of 76.81% compared to Canadian Life Companies Split's net margin of 50.77%. Canadian Life Companies Split's return on equity of 25.40% beat Urbana's return on equity.
In the previous week, Urbana had 8 more articles in the media than Canadian Life Companies Split. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Urbana and 2 mentions for Canadian Life Companies Split. Canadian Life Companies Split's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Urbana's score of -0.06 indicating that Canadian Life Companies Split is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Canadian Life Companies Split has a beta of 3.02, meaning that its share price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urbana has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Urbana has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Life Companies Split. Urbana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Life Companies Split, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canadian Life Companies Split received 34 more outperform votes than Urbana when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave Urbana an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Canadian Life Companies Split an outperform vote.
Canadian Life Companies Split pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Urbana pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Canadian Life Companies Split pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Urbana pays out 7.1% 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.
9.9% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.9% of Urbana shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of Urbana shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Urbana beats Canadian Life Companies Split on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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