KEY vs. FFH, BNC, BLX, SII, HUT, VBNK, PTS, WED, BITF, and ML
Should you be buying Keyera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Keyera include Fairfax Financial (FFH), Purpose Canadian Financial Income Fund Series ETF (BNC), Boralex (BLX), Sprott (SII), Hut 8 (HUT), VersaBank (VBNK), Points.com (PTS), Westaim (WED), Bitfarms (BITF), and Millennial Lithium (ML). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Keyera vs.
Fairfax Financial (TSE:FFH) and Keyera (TSE:KEY) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Keyera received 158 more outperform votes than Fairfax Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.82% of users gave Fairfax Financial an outperform vote while only 55.84% of users gave Keyera an outperform vote.
Fairfax Financial pays an annual dividend of C$20.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Keyera pays an annual dividend of C$2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Fairfax Financial pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Keyera pays out 107.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Fairfax Financial has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keyera has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.0% of Fairfax Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Keyera shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Fairfax Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Keyera shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fairfax Financial has a net margin of 13.90% compared to Keyera's net margin of 5.97%. Fairfax Financial's return on equity of 17.43% beat Keyera's return on equity.
Fairfax Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Keyera. Fairfax Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keyera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fairfax Financial currently has a consensus price target of C$2,310.71, indicating a potential upside of 7.36%. Keyera has a consensus price target of C$44.69, indicating a potential upside of 4.45%. Given Fairfax Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fairfax Financial is more favorable than Keyera.
In the previous week, Fairfax Financial and Fairfax Financial both had 7 articles in the media. Fairfax Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Keyera's score of -0.40 indicating that Fairfax Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fairfax Financial beats Keyera on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:KEY) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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