DIV vs. ISV, MAL, CHR, DXT, BDI, GDI, KBL, ALC, LEV, and NPS
Should you be buying Diversified Royalty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Royalty include Information Services (ISV), Magellan Aerospace (MAL), Chorus Aviation (CHR), Dexterra Group (DXT), Black Diamond Group (BDI), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), K-Bro Linen (KBL), Algoma Central (ALC), Lion Electric (LEV), and Canadian Large Cap Leaders Spli (NPS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Diversified Royalty (TSE:DIV) and Information Services (TSE:ISV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Information Services had 2 more articles in the media than Diversified Royalty. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Information Services and 1 mentions for Diversified Royalty. Diversified Royalty's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Information Services' score of 0.38 indicating that Diversified Royalty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
15.0% of Diversified Royalty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Diversified Royalty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Information Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Diversified Royalty pays an annual dividend of C$0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Information Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Diversified Royalty pays out 113.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Information Services pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Diversified Royalty has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Information Services. Diversified Royalty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Information Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diversified Royalty has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Information Services has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Diversified Royalty received 72 more outperform votes than Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.62% of users gave Diversified Royalty an outperform vote while only 53.81% of users gave Information Services an outperform vote.
Diversified Royalty currently has a consensus target price of C$3.47, suggesting a potential upside of 25.15%. Information Services has a consensus target price of C$31.15, suggesting a potential upside of 17.11%. Given Diversified Royalty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Diversified Royalty is more favorable than Information Services.
Diversified Royalty has a net margin of 56.15% compared to Information Services' net margin of 11.68%. Information Services' return on equity of 15.44% beat Diversified Royalty's return on equity.
Summary
Diversified Royalty beats Information Services on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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