IAG vs. SLF, FFH, POW, BAM, X, IGM, ONEX, DFY, ELF, and EQB
Should you be buying iA Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iA Financial include Sun Life Financial (SLF), Fairfax Financial (FFH), Power Co. of Canada (POW), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), TMX Group (X), IGM Financial (IGM), Onex (ONEX), Definity Financial (DFY), E-L Financial (ELF), and EQB (EQB). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sun Life Financial (TSE:SLF) and iA Financial (TSE:IAG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Sun Life Financial currently has a consensus target price of C$76.09, suggesting a potential upside of 10.28%. iA Financial has a consensus target price of C$89.72, suggesting a potential downside of 1.15%. Given iA Financial's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Sun Life Financial is more favorable than iA Financial.
Sun Life Financial received 336 more outperform votes than iA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.85% of users gave Sun Life Financial an outperform vote while only 51.17% of users gave iA Financial an outperform vote.
56.8% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of iA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Sun Life Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of iA Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sun Life Financial has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iA Financial has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sun Life Financial has higher revenue and earnings than iA Financial. iA Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Life Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sun Life Financial and Sun Life Financial both had 6 articles in the media. iA Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Sun Life Financial's score of 0.04 indicating that Sun Life Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Life Financial pays an annual dividend of C$3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. iA Financial pays an annual dividend of C$3.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Sun Life Financial pays out 61.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. iA Financial pays out 45.3% 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.
Sun Life Financial has a net margin of 10.12% compared to Sun Life Financial's net margin of 9.25%. iA Financial's return on equity of 13.68% beat Sun Life Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Sun Life Financial beats iA Financial on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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