GSY vs. EQB, CWB, CIX, FN, ELF, TSU, GLXY, SII, UNC, and LB
Should you be buying goeasy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of goeasy include EQB (EQB), Canadian Western Bank (CWB), CI Financial (CIX), First National Financial (FN), E-L Financial (ELF), Trisura Group (TSU), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Sprott (SII), United Co.s (UNC), and Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
goeasy (TSE:GSY) and EQB (TSE:EQB) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
21.4% of goeasy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.5% of EQB shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of goeasy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of EQB shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EQB has a net margin of 39.67% compared to goeasy's net margin of 33.32%. goeasy's return on equity of 25.47% beat EQB's return on equity.
goeasy pays an annual dividend of C$4.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. EQB pays an annual dividend of C$1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. goeasy pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EQB pays out 18.0% 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.
goeasy presently has a consensus target price of C$208.80, indicating a potential upside of 16.93%. EQB has a consensus target price of C$101.78, indicating a potential upside of 26.18%. Given EQB's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EQB is more favorable than goeasy.
EQB has higher revenue and earnings than goeasy. EQB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than goeasy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, EQB had 11 more articles in the media than goeasy. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for EQB and 1 mentions for goeasy. goeasy's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat EQB's score of 0.38 indicating that goeasy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
goeasy received 4 more outperform votes than EQB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.85% of users gave goeasy an outperform vote while only 60.63% of users gave EQB an outperform vote.
goeasy has a beta of 1.95, suggesting that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EQB has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
goeasy beats EQB on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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