GCG.A vs. FIH.U, AGF.B, AD.UN, ZBK, HTA, VRE, CWB.PD, PBY.UN, DC.A, and PIC.A
Should you be buying Guardian Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guardian Capital Group include Fairfax India (FIH.U), AGF Management (AGF.B), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Canadian Western Bank (CWB.PD), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Dundee (DC.A), and Premium Income (PIC.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 better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fairfax India shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
Guardian Capital Group currently has a consensus target price of C$55.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.70%. Given Guardian Capital Group'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 Fairfax India's net margin of 61.90%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 13.14% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fairfax India had 1 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fairfax India and 1 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Fairfax India's score of 0.00 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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