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Should you be buying Guardian Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guardian Capital Group include Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Aimia (AIM), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), and Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG) and Gluskin Sheff + Associates (TSE:GS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
26.6% of Guardian Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 77.1% of Guardian Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Guardian Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Gluskin Sheff + Associates. Gluskin Sheff + Associates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guardian Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Guardian Capital Group currently has a consensus target price of C$53.33, indicating a potential upside of 21.21%.
Guardian Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Gluskin Sheff + Associates pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share. Guardian Capital Group pays out 38.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gluskin Sheff + Associates pays out 123.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guardian Capital Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Gluskin Sheff + Associates had 1 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gluskin Sheff + Associates and 0 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Gluskin Sheff + Associates'average media sentiment score.
Gluskin Sheff + Associates received 162 more outperform votes than Guardian Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.79% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote while only 56.73% of users gave Gluskin Sheff + Associates an outperform vote.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 38.72% compared to Gluskin Sheff + Associates' net margin of 0.00%. Guardian Capital Group's return on equity of 7.89% beat Gluskin Sheff + Associates' return on equity.
Summary
Guardian Capital Group beats Gluskin Sheff + Associates on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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