UNC vs. SII, CVG, CGI, SEC, DFN, FTN, LBS, CIX, LB, and HUT
Should you be buying United Co.s stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Co.s include Sprott (SII), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), CI Financial (CIX), Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB), and Hut 8 (HUT). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Sprott currently has a consensus target price of C$63.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.28%. Given United Co.s' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than United Co.s.
Sprott received 240 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 60.04% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
Sprott has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Co.s has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
31.0% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. 18.4% of Sprott shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of United Co.s shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 2 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for United Co.s and 11 mentions for Sprott. United Co.s' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Sprott's score of 0.32 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to United Co.s' net margin of 24.73%. Sprott's return on equity of 16.60% beat United Co.s' return on equity.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sprott pays out 61.4% 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.
Summary
Sprott beats United Co.s on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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