AGF.B vs. PBY.UN, GCG.A, FIH.U, HTA, ZBK, AD.UN, VRE, DC.A, PIC.A, and WCM.A
Should you be buying AGF Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGF Management include Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Fairfax India (FIH.U), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Dundee (DC.A), Premium Income (PIC.A), and Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AGF Management (TSE:AGF.B) and Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (TSE:PBY.UN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
AGF Management has higher revenue and earnings than Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund.
AGF Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. AGF Management pays out 30.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
AGF Management has a net margin of 20.35% compared to Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. AGF Management's return on equity of 9.35% beat Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund's return on equity.
12.7% of AGF Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.0% of Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of AGF Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund shares are held 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.
AGF Management received 119 more outperform votes than Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.00% of users gave Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund an outperform vote while only 35.38% of users gave AGF Management an outperform vote.
AGF Management presently has a consensus price target of C$10.75, indicating a potential upside of 31.42%. Given AGF Management's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AGF Management is more favorable than Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund.
In the previous week, Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund had 2 more articles in the media than AGF Management. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund and 1 mentions for AGF Management. Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat AGF Management's score of 0.00 indicating that Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AGF Management beats Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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