CVG vs. UNC, CGI, SEC, SII, DFN, FTN, LBS, BK, OLY, and CIX
Should you be buying Clairvest Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clairvest Group include United Co.s (UNC), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Sprott (SII), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), and CI Financial (CIX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
United Co.s (TSE:UNC) and Clairvest Group (TSE:CVG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 30 more articles in the media than Clairvest Group. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for United Co.s and 1 mentions for Clairvest Group. United Co.s' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Clairvest Group's score of 0.16 indicating that Clairvest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to United Co.s' net margin of 0.00%. Clairvest Group's return on equity of 16.60% beat United Co.s' return on equity.
0.2% of Clairvest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of United Co.s shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 79.1% of Clairvest Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Clairvest Group received 54 more outperform votes than United Co.s when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.29% of users gave Clairvest Group an outperform vote while only 74.07% of users gave United Co.s an outperform vote.
United Co.s has higher revenue and earnings than Clairvest Group. Clairvest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Co.s, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Clairvest Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. United Co.s pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clairvest Group pays out -3.5% 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.
Summary
United Co.s beats Clairvest Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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