SII vs. UNC, CVG, CGI, SEC, DFN, FTN, CIX, GLXY, LB, and HUT
Should you be buying Sprott stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott include United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), CI Financial (CIX), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB), and Hut 8 (HUT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sprott (TSE:SII) and United Co.s (TSE:UNC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
37.9% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. 18.4% of Sprott shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of United Co.s shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to Sprott's net margin of 26.79%. United Co.s' return on equity of 16.60% beat Sprott's return on equity.
Sprott presently has a consensus price target of C$63.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.86%. Given Sprott's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than United Co.s.
Sprott received 240 more outperform votes than United Co.s when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.07% of users gave United Co.s an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
Sprott has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Co.s has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Co.s has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott. United Co.s is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 6 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for United Co.s and 3 mentions for Sprott. United Co.s' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Sprott's score of 0.02 indicating that United Co.s is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sprott pays out 57.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Co.s pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
United Co.s beats Sprott on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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