BN vs. BAM, IGM, ONEX, CIX, SII, FIH.U, UNC, CVG, GCG.A, and CGI
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), IGM Financial (IGM), Onex (ONEX), CI Financial (CIX), Sprott (SII), Fairfax India (FIH.U), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), and Canadian General Investments (CGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brookfield (TSE:BN) and Brookfield Asset Management (TSE:BAM) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Brookfield Asset Management has a net margin of 45.32% compared to Brookfield's net margin of 1.14%. Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity of 18.79% beat Brookfield's return on equity.
Brookfield Asset Management received 243 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 73.59% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote.
Brookfield pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Brookfield pays out 55.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 143.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Brookfield currently has a consensus target price of C$44.00, suggesting a potential downside of 24.63%. Given Brookfield's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Brookfield is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.
Brookfield has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Asset Management. Brookfield Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.4% of Brookfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Brookfield shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of Brookfield Asset Management 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.
In the previous week, Brookfield Asset Management had 2 more articles in the media than Brookfield. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Brookfield Asset Management and 1 mentions for Brookfield. Brookfield Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Brookfield's score of 0.44 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Brookfield and Brookfield Asset Management tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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