NOAH vs. CIXXF, VRTS, HPH, BBDC, BRDG, BSIG, PAX, ABL, FDUS, and ALTI
Should you be buying Noah stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Noah include CI Financial (CIXXF), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Highest Performances (HPH), Barings BDC (BBDC), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Patria Investments (PAX), Abacus Life (ABL), Fidus Investment (FDUS), and AlTi Global (ALTI). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and Noah (NYSE:NOAH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Noah received 262 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.84% of users gave Noah an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Noah pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. CI Financial pays out -67.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Noah pays out 58.1% 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.
Noah has a net margin of 31.26% compared to Noah's net margin of -6.49%. Noah's return on equity of 46.20% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
Noah has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noah, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Noah has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Noah has a consensus price target of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 94.97%. Given CI Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Noah is more favorable than CI Financial.
42.7% of Noah shares are held by institutional investors. 47.2% of Noah shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Noah had 1 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Noah and 0 mentions for CI Financial. CI Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Noah's score of 0.00 indicating that Noah is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Noah beats CI Financial on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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