CIX vs. SII, UNC, CVG, CGI, SEC, ONEX, IGM, CWB, FN, and GSY
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Sprott (SII), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Onex (ONEX), IGM Financial (IGM), Canadian Western Bank (CWB), First National Financial (FN), and goeasy (GSY). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Sprott (TSE:SII) and CI Financial (TSE:CIX) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
31.0% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of Sprott shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of CI Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sprott currently has a consensus target price of C$56.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.38%. CI Financial has a consensus target price of C$19.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.85%. Given Sprott's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CI Financial is more favorable than Sprott.
Sprott has a net margin of 24.73% compared to Sprott's net margin of 0.16%. CI Financial's return on equity of 13.72% beat Sprott's return on equity.
In the previous week, Sprott had 3 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sprott and 0 mentions for CI Financial. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat CI Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that CI Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sprott has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CI Financial. Sprott is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CI Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. CI Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Sprott pays out 61.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CI Financial pays out 228.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CI Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
CI Financial received 123 more outperform votes than Sprott when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.19% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
Sprott has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sprott and CI Financial tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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