Crew Energy (CR) Competitors

CI Financial (TSE:CIX) and Crew Energy (TSE:CR) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

Do analysts recommend CIX or CR?

CI Financial presently has a consensus target price of C$19.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.35%. Crew Energy has a consensus target price of C$7.58, suggesting a potential upside of 2.40%. Given Crew Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crew Energy is more favorable than CI Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CI Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Crew Energy	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Is CIX or CR a better dividend stock?

CI Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Crew Energy pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.9%. CI Financial pays out -296.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crew Energy pays out 325.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, CIX or CR?

Crew Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crew Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CI Financial	C$3.50B	0.79	-C$53.93M	-C$0.27	-70.11
Crew Energy	C$304.96M	3.82	C$68.69M	C$0.43	17.21

Which has more risk and volatility, CIX or CR?

CI Financial has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crew Energy has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CIX or CR more profitable?

Crew Energy has a net margin of 22.52% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -1.54%. Crew Energy's return on equity of 5.29% beat CI Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CI Financial	-1.54%	-4.48%	4.87%
Crew Energy	22.52%	5.29%	3.90%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CIX or CR?

Crew Energy received 35 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.27% of users gave Crew Energy an outperform vote while only 58.53% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CI Financial	Outperform Votes 446 58.53%	Underperform Votes 316 41.47%
Crew Energy	Outperform Votes 481 61.27%	Underperform Votes 304 38.73%

Does the media prefer CIX or CR?

In the previous week, Crew Energy had 15 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Crew Energy and 2 mentions for CI Financial. Crew Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat CI Financial's score of 0.17 indicating that Crew Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CI Financial	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Crew Energy	4 Very Positive mention(s)	9 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders believe in CIX or CR?

15.7% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of Crew Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of CI Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Crew Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Crew Energy beats CI Financial on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.