ELF vs. EQB, GSY, CWB, CIX, DFY, FN, TSU, GLXY, SII, and UNC
Should you be buying E-L Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of E-L Financial include EQB (EQB), goeasy (GSY), Canadian Western Bank (CWB), CI Financial (CIX), Definity Financial (DFY), First National Financial (FN), Trisura Group (TSU), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Sprott (SII), and United Co.s (UNC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
E-L Financial (TSE:ELF) and EQB (TSE:EQB) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
EQB received 275 more outperform votes than E-L Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.20% of users gave E-L Financial an outperform vote while only 60.57% of users gave EQB an outperform vote.
EQB has a net margin of 39.67% compared to E-L Financial's net margin of 34.70%. EQB's return on equity of 14.70% beat E-L Financial's return on equity.
E-L Financial has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less 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.
E-L Financial pays an annual dividend of C$15.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. EQB pays an annual dividend of C$1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. E-L Financial pays out 6.1% 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.
EQB has a consensus price target of C$102.56, suggesting a potential upside of 20.65%. Given EQB's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe EQB is more favorable than E-L Financial.
In the previous week, E-L Financial had 2 more articles in the media than EQB. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for E-L Financial and 3 mentions for EQB. E-L Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat EQB's score of 0.18 indicating that E-L Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
16.3% of E-L Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.6% of EQB shares are held by institutional investors. 57.8% of E-L Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.1% of EQB shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
E-L Financial has higher revenue and earnings than EQB. E-L Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EQB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
EQB beats E-L Financial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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