CWB.PD vs. FIH.U, GCG.A, AD.UN, ZBK, AGF.B, HTA, VRE, PBY.UN, DC.A, and PIC.A
Should you be buying Canadian Western Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Western Bank include Fairfax India (FIH.U), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), AGF Management (AGF.B), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Dundee (DC.A), and Premium Income (PIC.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) and Canadian Western Bank (TSE:CWB.PD) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Fairfax India has a net margin of 37.36% compared to Fairfax India's net margin of 31.97%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 8.58% beat Canadian Western Bank's return on equity.
Fairfax India received 129 more outperform votes than Canadian Western Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Canadian Western Bank an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote.
Canadian Western Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Fairfax India. Canadian Western Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fairfax India, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.4% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Canadian Western Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 27.5% of Fairfax India shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Fairfax India had 1 more articles in the media than Canadian Western Bank. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fairfax India and 0 mentions for Canadian Western Bank. Canadian Western Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Fairfax India'saverage media sentiment score.
Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Western Bank has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Canadian Western Bank on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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