AGF.B vs. WED, GS, FSZ, TF, FTN, LBS, XLY, BK, CGI, and PBY.UN
Should you be buying AGF Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGF Management include Westaim (WED), Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), Fiera Capital (FSZ), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Canadian Banc (BK), Canadian General Investments (CGI), and Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AGF Management vs.
AGF Management (TSE:AGF.B) and Westaim (CVE:WED) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
13.6% of AGF Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of Westaim shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of AGF Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of Westaim shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AGF Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Westaim pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. AGF Management pays out 42.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westaim pays out 17.1% 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.
AGF Management presently has a consensus target price of C$8.88, indicating a potential upside of 20.42%. Given AGF Management's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AGF Management is more favorable than Westaim.
In the previous week, Westaim had 1 more articles in the media than AGF Management. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Westaim and 1 mentions for AGF Management. AGF Management's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Westaim's score of 0.00 indicating that AGF Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Westaim has a net margin of 91.36% compared to AGF Management's net margin of 15.58%. Westaim's return on equity of 26.94% beat AGF Management's return on equity.
Westaim has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AGF Management. Westaim is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AGF Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AGF Management has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westaim has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AGF Management received 64 more outperform votes than Westaim when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.14% of users gave Westaim an outperform vote while only 36.17% of users gave AGF Management an outperform vote.
Summary
AGF Management and Westaim tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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