CIXXF vs. GCMG, VRTS, HPH, PJT, AMK, BBDC, DBRG, BSIG, FHI, and BRDG
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Highest Performances (HPH), PJT Partners (PJT), AssetMark Financial (AMK), Barings BDC (BBDC), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Federated Hermes (FHI), and Bridge Investment Group (BRDG).
CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ:GCMG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GCM Grosvenor has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GCM Grosvenor received 30 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.82% of users gave GCM Grosvenor an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, GCM Grosvenor had 1 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for GCM Grosvenor and 1 mentions for CI Financial. CI Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat GCM Grosvenor's score of -0.50 indicating that CI Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
100.0% of GCM Grosvenor shares are owned by institutional investors. 77.7% of GCM Grosvenor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GCM Grosvenor has a consensus price target of $10.40, indicating a potential upside of 11.35%. Given GCM Grosvenor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GCM Grosvenor is more favorable than CI Financial.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. GCM Grosvenor pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. CI Financial pays out -2,948.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GCM Grosvenor pays out -151.7% 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. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
GCM Grosvenor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GCM Grosvenor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GCM Grosvenor has a net margin of 2.87% compared to CI Financial's net margin of 0.21%. CI Financial's return on equity of 40.15% beat GCM Grosvenor's return on equity.
Summary
GCM Grosvenor beats CI Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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