DC.A vs. PIC.A, WCM.A, PBY.UN, VRE, INC.UN, MMP.UN, BNK, and AGF.B
Should you be buying Dundee stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dundee include Premium Income (PIC.A), Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Income Financial Trust (INC.UN), Precious Metals And Mng Unt (MMP.UN), Big Banc Split (BNK), and AGF Management (AGF.B). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Dundee (TSE:DC.A) and Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Dundee received 81 more outperform votes than Premium Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.46% of users gave Dundee an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Premium Income an outperform vote.
34.7% of Dundee shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Dundee shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Dundee had 1 more articles in the media than Premium Income. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Dundee and 1 mentions for Premium Income. Dundee's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Premium Income's score of 0.22 indicating that Dundee is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dundee has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Income. Dundee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dundee pays an annual dividend of C$0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.4%. Dundee pays out -25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premium Income pays out -25.3% 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.
Dundee has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Income has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dundee's return on equity of -12.40% beat Premium Income's return on equity.
Summary
Dundee beats Premium Income on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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