SII vs. UNC, CVG, CGI, SEC, DFN, FTN, CIX, GLXY, HUT, and LB
Should you be buying Sprott stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott include United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), CI Financial (CIX), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Hut 8 (HUT), and Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sprott (TSE:SII) and United Co.s (TSE:UNC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Sprott presently has a consensus price target of C$56.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.30%. Given Sprott's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than United Co.s.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sprott pays out 61.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Co.s pays out 4.4% 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.
Sprott has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Co.s has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 9 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for United Co.s and 4 mentions for Sprott. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat United Co.s' score of 0.08 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Co.s has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott. United Co.s is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to Sprott's net margin of 24.73%. United Co.s' return on equity of 16.60% beat Sprott's return on equity.
31.0% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of Sprott shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of United Co.s 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.
Sprott received 239 more outperform votes than United Co.s when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.07% of users gave United Co.s an outperform vote while only 60.19% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
Summary
Sprott and United Co.s tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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