FIH.U vs. GCG.A, AGF.B, AD.UN, ZBK, CWB.PD, HTA, PBY.UN, DC.A, PIC.A, and WCM.A
Should you be buying Fairfax India stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fairfax India include Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), AGF Management (AGF.B), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Canadian Western Bank (CWB.PD), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Dundee (DC.A), Premium Income (PIC.A), and Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG.A) and Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Fairfax India has higher revenue and earnings than Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fairfax India, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guardian Capital Group currently has a consensus target price of C$55.67, indicating a potential upside of 22.59%. Given Fairfax India's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Fairfax India.
21.7% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fairfax India received 35 more outperform votes than Guardian Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote while only 52.15% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 233.40% compared to Guardian Capital Group's net margin of 37.36%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 10.09% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fairfax India had 1 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fairfax India and 0 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Fairfax India's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Guardian Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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