Crown Capital Partners (CRWN) Competitors

Crown Capital Partners (TSE:CRWN) and Chesswood Group (TSE:CHW) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.

Is CRWN or CHW a better dividend stock?

Crown Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 64.5%. Chesswood Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share. Crown Capital Partners pays out -12.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chesswood Group pays out -5.9% 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. Crown Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor CRWN or CHW?

In the previous week, Crown Capital Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Chesswood Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Crown Capital Partners	Neutral
Chesswood Group	Neutral

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, CRWN or CHW?

Crown Capital Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chesswood Group. Crown Capital Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chesswood Group, 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
Crown Capital Partners	C$51.14M	0.10	-C$26.97M	-C$4.83	-0.19
Chesswood Group	C$97.38M	0.00	-C$36.97M	-C$2.05	N/A

Is CRWN or CHW more profitable?

Chesswood Group has a net margin of -37.96% compared to Crown Capital Partners' net margin of -52.73%. Chesswood Group's return on equity of -19.79% beat Crown Capital Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Crown Capital Partners	-52.73%	-91.56%	-4.57%
Chesswood Group	-37.96%	-19.79%	-1.84%

Which has more volatility and risk, CRWN or CHW?

Crown Capital Partners has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chesswood Group has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in CRWN or CHW?

31.7% of Crown Capital Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of Chesswood Group shares are held by institutional investors. 32.4% of Crown Capital Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.3% of Chesswood Group shares are held 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.

Do analysts recommend CRWN or CHW?

Chesswood Group has a consensus target price of C$3.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Chesswood Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chesswood Group is more favorable than Crown Capital Partners.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Crown Capital Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Chesswood Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CRWN or CHW?

Chesswood Group received 69 more outperform votes than Crown Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Chesswood Group an outperform vote while only 63.52% of users gave Crown Capital Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Crown Capital Partners	Outperform Votes 101 63.52%	Underperform Votes 58 36.48%
Chesswood Group	Outperform Votes 170 65.13%	Underperform Votes 91 34.87%

Summary

Chesswood Group beats Crown Capital Partners on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.