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 business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
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.
21.7% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fairfax India shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Fairfax India had 1 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fairfax India and 0 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Fairfax India'saverage media sentiment score.
Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax India has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guardian Capital Group presently has a consensus price target of C$55.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.70%. Given Guardian Capital Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Fairfax India.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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