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Intact Financial (IFC) Competitors

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C$304.25 -1.92 (-0.63%)
As of 04:00 PM Eastern

IFC vs. FFH, DFY, KFS, TD, BMO, BAM, BNS, CM, BN, and MFC

Should you be buying Intact Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intact Financial include Fairfax Financial (FFH), Definity Financial (DFY), Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS.TO) (KFS), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Brookfield (BN), and Manulife Financial (MFC).

Intact Financial vs.

Fairfax Financial (TSE:FFH) and Intact Financial (TSE:IFC) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Fairfax Financial presently has a consensus target price of C$2,310.71, suggesting a potential upside of 7.28%. Intact Financial has a consensus target price of C$295.09, suggesting a potential downside of 3.01%. Given Fairfax Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Fairfax Financial is more favorable than Intact Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fairfax Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Intact Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

Fairfax Financial pays an annual dividend of C$20.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Intact Financial pays an annual dividend of C$4.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Fairfax Financial pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intact Financial pays out 37.5% 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.

38.0% of Fairfax Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.7% of Intact Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Fairfax Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Intact Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Fairfax Financial has a net margin of 13.90% compared to Intact Financial's net margin of 8.60%. Fairfax Financial's return on equity of 17.43% beat Intact Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fairfax Financial13.90% 17.43% 4.27%
Intact Financial 8.60%13.13%3.55%

In the previous week, Intact Financial had 13 more articles in the media than Fairfax Financial. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Intact Financial and 7 mentions for Fairfax Financial. Fairfax Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Intact Financial's score of 0.31 indicating that Fairfax Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fairfax Financial
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Intact Financial
3 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Fairfax Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intact Financial. Fairfax Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intact Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fairfax FinancialC$21.14B1.63C$2.94BC$261.168.25
Intact FinancialC$26.64B2.03C$2.29BC$12.9123.56

Intact Financial received 238 more outperform votes than Fairfax Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.79% of users gave Intact Financial an outperform vote while only 62.82% of users gave Fairfax Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Fairfax FinancialOutperform Votes
387
62.82%
Underperform Votes
229
37.18%
Intact FinancialOutperform Votes
625
67.79%
Underperform Votes
297
32.21%

Fairfax Financial has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intact Financial has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Fairfax Financial beats Intact Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IFC vs. The Competition

MetricIntact FinancialInsurance IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$54.12BC$14.40BC$3.84BC$5.66B
Dividend Yield1.68%4.41%4.21%6.84%
P/E Ratio23.5612.7413.0528.62
Price / Sales2.0393.771,692.12601.02
Price / Cash11.995.1450.4983.20
Price / Book2.992.853.413.71
Net IncomeC$2.29BC$914.48MC$1.25BC$301.04M
7 Day Performance1.83%1.59%1.37%0.10%
1 Month Performance1.91%2.74%12.85%-0.40%
1 Year Performance32.94%23.42%12.94%13.81%

Intact Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IFC
Intact Financial
1.1759 of 5 stars
C$304.25
-0.6%
C$295.09
-3.0%
+35.3%C$54.12BC$26.64B23.5630,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FFH
Fairfax Financial
2.0575 of 5 stars
C$2,124.43
+0.1%
C$2,239.29
+5.4%
+43.8%C$34.07BC$21.14B8.1319,300Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
DFY
Definity Financial
0.6745 of 5 stars
C$66.58
+1.1%
C$62.45
-6.2%
+49.9%C$7.68BC$4.40B14.103,442Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
KFS
Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS.TO)
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$61.55MC$53.38M-3.00280
TD
Toronto-Dominion Bank
0.9066 of 5 stars
C$86.68
+0.6%
C$88.75
+2.4%
+7.9%C$152.07BC$56.16B17.1793,700News Coverage
BMO
Bank of Montreal
2.561 of 5 stars
C$132.47
+0.6%
C$144.85
+9.3%
+7.4%C$95.95BC$53.67B13.0846,700Dividend Announcement
BAM
Brookfield Asset Management
1.6537 of 5 stars
C$73.61
+0.2%
C$68.00
-7.6%
+39.9%C$86.42BC$3.71B25.332,400Analyst Forecast
BNS
Bank of Nova Scotia
1.5792 of 5 stars
C$68.03
+0.6%
C$75.45
+10.9%
+9.2%C$83.37BC$43.73B10.7591,000
CM
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
2.3313 of 5 stars
C$85.55
+1.0%
C$94.50
+10.5%
+35.3%C$80.04BC$25.37B11.3048,552News Coverage
Positive News
BN
Brookfield
N/AC$73.72
-0.1%
N/A+34.1%C$78.35BC$63.79B87.62180,000News Coverage
MFC
Manulife Financial
1.9648 of 5 stars
C$42.14
+0.5%
C$46.10
+9.4%
+31.6%C$73.91BC$45.06B13.1140,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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