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Should you be buying abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC include Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Urbana (URB), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Aimia (AIM), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), and Canadian Banc (BK). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (TSE:FAP) and Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Guardian Capital Group has a consensus price target of C$53.33, indicating a potential upside of 19.82%. Given Guardian Capital Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 233.40% compared to abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's net margin of 100.60%. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's return on equity of 16.13% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC pays an annual dividend of C$0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Guardian Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC pays out 43.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Guardian Capital Group pays out 37.1% 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.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guardian Capital Group. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guardian Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Guardian Capital Group had 3 more articles in the media than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Guardian Capital Group and 0 mentions for abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's score of 0.00 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Guardian Capital Group received 127 more outperform votes than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.44% of users gave abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.
12.1% of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 77.1% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Guardian Capital Group beats abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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