UNC vs. SII, CVG, CGI, SEC, DFN, FTN, CIX, GLXY, LB, and HUT
Should you be buying United Co.s stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Co.s include Sprott (SII), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), CI Financial (CIX), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB), and Hut 8 (HUT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sprott (TSE:SII) and United Co.s (TSE:UNC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
United Co.s has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott. United Co.s is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 16 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for United Co.s and 4 mentions for Sprott. United Co.s' average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Sprott's score of -0.17 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sprott pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Co.s pays out 4.4% 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.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to United Co.s' net margin of 24.73%. Sprott's return on equity of 16.60% beat United Co.s' return on equity.
Sprott presently has a consensus price target of C$58.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.73%. Given United Co.s' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than United Co.s.
Sprott received 239 more outperform votes than United Co.s when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.07% of users gave United Co.s an outperform vote while only 60.08% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
31.0% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.4% of Sprott shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of United Co.s shares are owned 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.
Sprott has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Co.s has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sprott and United Co.s tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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