IGM vs. BAM, ONEX, CIX, SII, FIH.U, UNC, CVG, GCG.A, SEC, and CGI
Should you be buying IGM Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGM Financial include Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Onex (ONEX), CI Financial (CIX), Sprott (SII), Fairfax India (FIH.U), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Senvest Capital (SEC), and Canadian General Investments (CGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brookfield Asset Management (TSE:BAM) and IGM Financial (TSE:IGM) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
IGM Financial has a consensus price target of C$44.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.98%. Given Brookfield Asset Management's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IGM Financial is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.
IGM Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield Asset Management. IGM Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IGM Financial received 62 more outperform votes than Brookfield Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.59% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote while only 45.06% of users gave IGM Financial an outperform vote.
66.3% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.0% of IGM Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.1% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 59.2% of IGM Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, IGM Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Brookfield Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for IGM Financial and 2 mentions for Brookfield Asset Management. IGM Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Brookfield Asset Management's score of 0.56 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. IGM Financial pays an annual dividend of C$2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 143.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IGM Financial pays out 69.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IGM Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield Asset Management has a net margin of 45.32% compared to Brookfield Asset Management's net margin of 27.67%. IGM Financial's return on equity of 18.79% beat Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity.
Summary
IGM Financial beats Brookfield Asset Management on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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