CHW vs. ACD, DF, GCG, XAU, FAP, GDV, CXI, SBC, URB, and PNP
Should you be buying Chesswood Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chesswood Group include Accord Financial (ACD), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Goldmoney (XAU), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Currency Exchange International (CXI), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Urbana (URB), and Pinetree Capital (PNP). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Chesswood Group (TSE:CHW) and Accord Financial (TSE:ACD) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Chesswood Group has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accord Financial has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chesswood Group presently has a consensus price target of C$7.17, indicating a potential downside of 1.15%. Given Chesswood Group's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Chesswood Group is more favorable than Accord Financial.
Chesswood Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Accord Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Chesswood Group pays out -7.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Accord Financial pays out -24.2% 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. Accord Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Chesswood Group and Chesswood Group both had 1 articles in the media. Chesswood Group's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Accord Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Chesswood Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Accord Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chesswood Group. Chesswood Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accord Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4.7% of Chesswood Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.3% of Chesswood Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of Accord Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chesswood Group has a net margin of -28.21% compared to Accord Financial's net margin of -73.38%. Accord Financial's return on equity of -15.77% beat Chesswood Group's return on equity.
Chesswood Group received 11 more outperform votes than Accord Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.09% of users gave Accord Financial an outperform vote while only 65.64% of users gave Chesswood Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Accord Financial beats Chesswood Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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