FIH.U vs. GCG.A, AGF.B, CWB.PD, AD.UN, ZBK, HTA, PBY.UN, DC.A, PIC.A, and WCM.A
Should you be buying Fairfax India stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fairfax India include Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), AGF Management (AGF.B), Canadian Western Bank (CWB.PD), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Dundee (DC.A), Premium Income (PIC.A), and Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG.A) and Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Fairfax India received 35 more outperform votes than Guardian Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote while only 52.15% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Guardian Capital Group had 1 more articles in the media than Fairfax India. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Guardian Capital Group and 0 mentions for Fairfax India. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Fairfax India's score of -0.34 indicating that Fairfax India is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fairfax India has higher revenue and earnings than Guardian Capital Group. Fairfax India 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.
Guardian Capital Group currently has a consensus target price of C$55.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.01%. Given Fairfax India's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Fairfax India.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 233.40% compared to Guardian Capital Group's net margin of 61.90%. Guardian Capital Group's return on equity of 13.14% beat Fairfax India's return on equity.
21.7% of Guardian Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of Fairfax India shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.5% of Guardian Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fairfax India shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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