CIXXF vs. VRTS, GCMG, HPH, BBDC, PJT, DBRG, NOAH, BRDG, AMK, and BSIG
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), Highest Performances (HPH), Barings BDC (BBDC), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Noah (NOAH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), AssetMark Financial (AMK), and BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, CI Financial had 11 more articles in the media than Virtus Investment Partners. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for CI Financial and 5 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners. CI Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Virtus Investment Partners' score of 0.61 indicating that Virtus Investment Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Virtus Investment Partners received 322 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.49% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
Virtus Investment Partners has a net margin of 14.02% compared to Virtus Investment Partners' net margin of -6.49%. Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity of 42.97% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CI Financial pays out -67.0% 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. Virtus Investment Partners has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and CI Financial has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Investment Partners presently has a consensus price target of $246.33, suggesting a potential upside of 5.57%. Given CI Financial's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than CI Financial.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats CI Financial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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