CIX vs. SII, UNC, CVG, CGI, SEC, ONEX, IGM, CWB, FN, and TSU
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Sprott (SII), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Onex (ONEX), IGM Financial (IGM), Canadian Western Bank (CWB), First National Financial (FN), and Trisura Group (TSU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sprott (TSE:SII) and CI Financial (TSE:CIX) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Sprott has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CI Financial. Sprott is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CI Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI Financial received 125 more outperform votes than Sprott when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.04% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote while only 58.55% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
Sprott currently has a consensus price target of C$63.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.86%. CI Financial has a consensus price target of C$19.56, indicating a potential upside of 35.24%. Given Sprott's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CI Financial is more favorable than Sprott.
Sprott has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
37.9% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.6% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.4% of Sprott shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of CI Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sprott has a net margin of 26.79% compared to Sprott's net margin of 0.16%. CI Financial's return on equity of 14.92% beat Sprott's return on equity.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. CI Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Sprott pays out 57.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CI Financial pays out 228.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CI Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, CI Financial had 19 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for CI Financial and 3 mentions for Sprott. CI Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Sprott's score of -0.02 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sprott and CI Financial tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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