BN vs. BAM, BNS, BMO, CM, MFC, SLF, IFC, NA, GWO, and FFH
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Intact Financial (IFC), National Bank of Canada (NA), Great-West Lifeco (GWO), and Fairfax Financial (FFH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Brookfield Asset Management (TSE:BAM) and Brookfield (TSE:BN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
68.7% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Brookfield shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.1% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.5% of Brookfield shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Asset Management both had 1 articles in the media. Brookfield's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Brookfield Asset Management's score of 0.76 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookfield has a consensus price target of C$44.00, indicating a potential downside of 21.37%. Given Brookfield Asset Management's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brookfield is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.
Brookfield Asset Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield. Brookfield Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Brookfield pays an annual dividend of C$0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 135.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield pays out 51.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Brookfield Asset Management has a net margin of 45.27% compared to Brookfield Asset Management's net margin of 1.15%. Brookfield's return on equity of 18.68% beat Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity.
Brookfield Asset Management received 243 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 73.59% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote.
Summary
Brookfield Asset Management beats Brookfield on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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