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Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A) Competitors

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C$40.40 -0.83 (-2.01%)
As of 08/1/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

GCG.A vs. FIH.U, SII, GCG, CVG, CGI, SEC, DFN, AGF.B, FTN, and LBS

Should you be buying Guardian Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guardian Capital Group include Fairfax India (FIH.U), Sprott (SII), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Clairvest Group (CVG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), AGF Management (AGF.B), Financial 15 Split (FTN), and Life & Banc Split (LBS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Guardian Capital Group vs. Its Competitors

Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG.A) and Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Guardian Capital Group currently has a consensus price target of C$52.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.71%. Given Guardian Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Fairfax India.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardian Capital Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Fairfax India
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Fairfax India has a net margin of 56.53% compared to Guardian Capital Group's net margin of 24.73%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 7.81% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardian Capital Group24.73% 5.26% 2.48%
Fairfax India 56.53%7.81%5.34%

In the previous week, Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Fairfax India's score of 0.00 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Guardian Capital Group Positive
Fairfax India Neutral

20.8% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. 23.4% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.5% of Fairfax India shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Fairfax India has higher revenue and earnings than Guardian Capital Group. Fairfax India is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guardian Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardian Capital GroupC$251.52M3.57C$62.21MC$2.4316.63
Fairfax IndiaC$404.28M4.85C$228.56MC$1.6811.09

Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fairfax India has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GCG.A vs. The Competition

MetricGuardian Capital GroupAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$897.69MC$1.29BC$6.31BC$6.20B
Dividend Yield3.70%4.40%4.19%6.72%
P/E Ratio16.6322.3714.0363.43
Price / Sales3.572,540.331,847.241,250.99
Price / Cash6.3160.70127.4783.29
Price / Book0.771.452.244.86
Net IncomeC$62.21MC$265.04MC$1.23BC$301.20M
7 Day Performance-3.81%-0.46%6.05%-2.27%
1 Month Performance-4.31%0.52%1.79%0.79%
1 Year Performance-7.68%6.39%19.31%26.62%

Guardian Capital Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GCG.A
Guardian Capital Group
3.3056 of 5 stars
C$40.40
-2.0%
C$52.00
+28.7%
-7.9%C$897.69MC$251.52M16.63N/ANews Coverage
FIH.U
Fairfax India
N/AC$18.85
-2.1%
N/A+30.3%C$1.98BC$404.28M11.2212
SII
Sprott
0.5483 of 5 stars
C$93.67
-1.9%
C$88.33
-5.7%
+53.7%C$1.67BC$114.38M36.50170
GCG
Guardian Capital Group
1.3936 of 5 stars
C$43.30
+0.1%
C$45.00
+3.9%
-0.4%C$1.06BC$290.83M9.70600News Coverage
Gap Up
CVG
Clairvest Group
N/AC$73.15
-0.5%
N/A+7.1%C$1.05BC$125.89M12.6547News Coverage
CGI
Canadian General Investments
2.6963 of 5 stars
C$40.67
-0.1%
N/A+1.7%C$855.80MC$257.78M5.25N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
SEC
Senvest Capital
N/AC$347.77
flat
N/AN/AC$849.47MC$442.41M3.6232
DFN
Dividend 15 Split
N/AC$6.60
+0.3%
N/A+27.2%C$821.28MC$245.88M6.12N/ADividend Announcement
AGF.B
AGF Management
2.9737 of 5 stars
C$12.35
+0.7%
C$13.83
+12.0%
+48.0%C$788.67MC$517.16M9.65652
FTN
Financial 15 Split
N/AC$10.12
+0.4%
N/A+17.8%C$611.94MC$254.82M3.48N/ADividend Announcement
LBS
Life & Banc Split
N/AC$9.84
flat
N/A+24.6%C$460.66MC$84.19M12.39N/A

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This page (TSE:GCG.A) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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