INC.UN vs. PTF, WI, FAP, GMN, HYI, IAM, NIF.UN, LFE, M, and ICL
Should you be buying Income Financial Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Income Financial Trust include Pender Growth Fund (PTF), Western Investment Company of Canada (WI), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), GobiMin (GMN), Horizons Active High Yield Bond ETF Common (HYI), Integrated Asset Management (IAM), Noranda Income Fund (NIF.UN), Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), Mosaic Capital (M), and Itasca Capital Ltd. (ICL.V) (ICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Income Financial Trust vs. Its Competitors
Pender Growth Fund (CVE:PTF) and Income Financial Trust (TSE:INC.UN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Pender Growth Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Income Financial Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pender Growth Fund and 0 mentions for Income Financial Trust. Pender Growth Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Income Financial Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Pender Growth Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Income Financial Trust has a net margin of 91.79% compared to Pender Growth Fund's net margin of 90.98%. Pender Growth Fund's return on equity of 49.26% beat Income Financial Trust's return on equity.
Pender Growth Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Income Financial Trust. Pender Growth Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Income Financial Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3.8% of Pender Growth Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Income Financial Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Pender Growth Fund 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.
Pender Growth Fund has a beta of -0.040462, indicating that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Income Financial Trust has a beta of 1.186723, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pender Growth Fund beats Income Financial Trust on 9 of the 13 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:INC.UN) was last updated on 10/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
