ACD vs. CRWN, CHW, LFE, PWI, URB, PNP, XTD, FAP, XAU, and GCG
Should you be buying Accord Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accord Financial include Crown Capital Partners (CRWN), Chesswood Group (CHW), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), Urbana (URB), Pinetree Capital (PNP), TDb Split (XTD), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Goldmoney (XAU), and Guardian Capital Group (GCG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Accord Financial (TSE:ACD) and Crown Capital Partners (TSE:CRWN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Accord Financial has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Capital Partners has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Crown Capital Partners had 7 more articles in the media than Accord Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Crown Capital Partners and 0 mentions for Accord Financial. Crown Capital Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Accord Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Crown Capital Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown Capital Partners has a consensus target price of C$8.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Given Crown Capital Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown Capital Partners is more favorable than Accord Financial.
Accord Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Crown Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Accord Financial pays out -24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown Capital Partners pays out -27.8% 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. Crown Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crown Capital Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Accord Financial. Accord Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Capital Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accord Financial received 58 more outperform votes than Crown Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.09% of users gave Accord Financial an outperform vote while only 63.52% of users gave Crown Capital Partners an outperform vote.
Crown Capital Partners has a net margin of -16.75% compared to Accord Financial's net margin of -73.38%. Accord Financial's return on equity of -15.77% beat Crown Capital Partners' return on equity.
31.3% of Crown Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of Accord Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.1% of Crown Capital Partners 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.
Summary
Crown Capital Partners beats Accord Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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