AGF.B vs. PBY.UN, GCG.A, FIH.U, HTA, ZBK, AD.UN, VRE, DC.A, PIC.A, and WCM.A
Should you be buying AGF Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGF Management include Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Fairfax India (FIH.U), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Dundee (DC.A), Premium Income (PIC.A), and Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AGF Management (TSE:AGF.B) and Canso Credit Income Fund (TSE:PBY.UN) 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, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
AGF Management has a net margin of 18.59% compared to Canso Credit Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. AGF Management's return on equity of 8.28% beat Canso Credit Income Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, AGF Management and AGF Management both had 1 articles in the media. AGF Management's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Canso Credit Income Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that AGF Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGF Management currently has a consensus target price of C$10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 33.04%. Given AGF Management's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AGF Management is more favorable than Canso Credit Income Fund.
AGF Management has higher revenue and earnings than Canso Credit Income Fund.
13.2% of AGF Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.0% of Canso Credit Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.6% of AGF Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.2% of Canso Credit Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AGF Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Canso Credit Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. AGF Management pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
AGF Management received 119 more outperform votes than Canso Credit Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.00% of users gave Canso Credit Income Fund an outperform vote while only 35.38% of users gave AGF Management an outperform vote.
Summary
AGF Management beats Canso Credit Income Fund on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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