CWB.PD vs. FIH.U, GCG.A, AD.UN, ZBK, AGF.B, HTA, VRE, PBY.UN, DC.A, and PIC.A
Should you be buying Canadian Western Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Western Bank include Fairfax India (FIH.U), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), BMO Equal Weight US Banks Index ETF (ZBK), AGF Management (AGF.B), Harvest Tech Achievers Growth & Income ETF (HTA), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Dundee (DC.A), and Premium Income (PIC.A). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) and Canadian Western Bank (TSE:CWB.PD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Fairfax India has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Western Bank has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fairfax India had 1 more articles in the media than Canadian Western Bank. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fairfax India and 0 mentions for Canadian Western Bank. Canadian Western Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Fairfax India's score of 0.00 indicating that Fairfax India is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fairfax India received 129 more outperform votes than Canadian Western Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Canadian Western Bank an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote.
Fairfax India has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Canadian Western Bank. Fairfax India is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Western Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fairfax India has a net margin of 61.90% compared to Fairfax India's net margin of 31.97%. Canadian Western Bank's return on equity of 13.14% beat Fairfax India's return on equity.
32.3% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Canadian Western Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 27.5% of Fairfax India shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Fairfax India beats Canadian Western Bank on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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