FFH vs. TD, BMO, BNS, KEY, HUT, BNC, SII, BLX, BITF, and HIVE
Should you be buying Fairfax Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fairfax Financial include Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Keyera (KEY), Hut 8 (HUT), Purpose Canadian Financial Income Fund Series ETF (BNC), Sprott (SII), Boralex (BLX), Bitfarms (BITF), and HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Fairfax Financial vs. Its Competitors
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE:TD) and Fairfax Financial (TSE:FFH) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Toronto-Dominion Bank presently has a consensus price target of C$105.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.09%. Fairfax Financial has a consensus price target of C$2,742.86, suggesting a potential upside of 11.12%. Given Fairfax Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fairfax Financial is more favorable than Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Toronto-Dominion Bank has a net margin of 15.80% compared to Fairfax Financial's net margin of 13.90%. Fairfax Financial's return on equity of 17.43% beat Toronto-Dominion Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, Toronto-Dominion Bank had 15 more articles in the media than Fairfax Financial. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Toronto-Dominion Bank and 2 mentions for Fairfax Financial. Fairfax Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Toronto-Dominion Bank's score of 0.37 indicating that Fairfax Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toronto-Dominion Bank has a beta of 0.952999, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax Financial has a beta of 0.435421, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Toronto-Dominion Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Fairfax Financial. Toronto-Dominion Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fairfax Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.4% of Toronto-Dominion Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.1% of Fairfax Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Toronto-Dominion Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Fairfax Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Toronto-Dominion Bank pays an annual dividend of C$4.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Fairfax Financial pays an annual dividend of C$15.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Toronto-Dominion Bank pays out 35.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fairfax Financial pays out 7.6% 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
Fairfax Financial beats Toronto-Dominion Bank on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:FFH) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
