GCMG vs. CIXXF, VRTS, HPH, PJT, DBRG, AMK, BBDC, FHI, NOAH, and BSIG
Should you be buying GCM Grosvenor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GCM Grosvenor include CI Financial (CIXXF), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Highest Performances (HPH), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Barings BDC (BBDC), Federated Hermes (FHI), Noah (NOAH), and BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ:GCMG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
99.9% of GCM Grosvenor shares are held by institutional investors. 77.7% of GCM Grosvenor shares are held by company 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.
GCM Grosvenor received 31 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.62% of users gave GCM Grosvenor an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
GCM Grosvenor has a consensus price target of $10.70, suggesting a potential upside of 11.46%. Given CI Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GCM Grosvenor is more favorable than CI Financial.
In the previous week, GCM Grosvenor had 8 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for GCM Grosvenor and 4 mentions for CI Financial. GCM Grosvenor's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat CI Financial's score of 0.53 indicating that CI Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GCM Grosvenor has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. GCM Grosvenor pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. CI Financial pays out -2,948.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GCM Grosvenor pays out -137.5% 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. CI Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
GCM Grosvenor has a net margin of 3.55% compared to GCM Grosvenor's net margin of 0.21%. GCM Grosvenor's return on equity of 40.15% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
GCM Grosvenor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GCM Grosvenor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
GCM Grosvenor beats CI Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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