ACD vs. CRWN, CHW, PNP, URB, LFE, PWI, XTD, FAP, XAU, and GCG
Should you be buying Accord Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accord Financial include Crown Capital Partners (CRWN), Chesswood Group (CHW), Pinetree Capital (PNP), Urbana (URB), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), TDb Split (XTD), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Goldmoney (XAU), and Guardian Capital Group (GCG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Accord Financial (TSE:ACD) and Crown Capital Partners (TSE:CRWN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Accord Financial received 58 more outperform votes than Crown Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.09% of users gave Accord Financial an outperform vote while only 63.52% of users gave Crown Capital Partners an outperform vote.
Crown Capital Partners has a net margin of -16.75% compared to Accord Financial's net margin of -73.38%. Accord Financial's return on equity of -15.77% beat Crown Capital Partners' return on equity.
31.3% of Crown Capital Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of Accord Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.1% of Crown Capital Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Crown Capital Partners had 5 more articles in the media than Accord Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Crown Capital Partners and 0 mentions for Accord Financial. Accord Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Crown Capital Partners' score of 0.15 indicating that Accord Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Accord Financial has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Capital Partners has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Accord Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Crown Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. Accord Financial pays out -24.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown Capital Partners pays out -27.8% 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. Crown Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crown Capital Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Accord Financial. Accord Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Capital Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown Capital Partners has a consensus target price of C$8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 60.00%. Given Crown Capital Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crown Capital Partners is more favorable than Accord Financial.
Summary
Crown Capital Partners beats Accord Financial on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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