LBS vs. CVG, GCG.A, SEC, CGI, FSZ, DFN, AGF.B, WED, GS, and FTN
Should you be buying Life & Banc Split stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Life & Banc Split include Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Senvest Capital (SEC), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Fiera Capital (FSZ), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), AGF Management (AGF.B), Westaim (WED), Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), and Financial 15 Split (FTN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Life & Banc Split (TSE:LBS) and Clairvest Group (TSE:CVG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Life & Banc Split has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clairvest Group has a beta of -0.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Clairvest Group had 2 more articles in the media than Life & Banc Split. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Clairvest Group and 1 mentions for Life & Banc Split. Life & Banc Split's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Clairvest Group's score of 0.15 indicating that Life & Banc Split is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clairvest Group received 38 more outperform votes than Life & Banc Split when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.29% of users gave Clairvest Group an outperform vote while only 68.09% of users gave Life & Banc Split an outperform vote.
Life & Banc Split has a net margin of 62.96% compared to Clairvest Group's net margin of 0.00%. Life & Banc Split's return on equity of 20.84% beat Clairvest Group's return on equity.
Life & Banc Split has higher revenue and earnings than Clairvest Group. Clairvest Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Life & Banc Split, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
0.2% of Clairvest Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 79.1% of Clairvest Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Life & Banc Split pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.8%. Clairvest Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Life & Banc Split pays out 80.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Clairvest Group pays out -3.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Life & Banc Split beats Clairvest Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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