LFE vs. URB, PWI, XTD, FAP, DF, GCG, GDV, ACD, PNP, and CRWN
Should you be buying Canadian Life Companies Split stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Life Companies Split include Urbana (URB), Sustainable Power & Infrastructure Split (PWI), TDb Split (XTD), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Accord Financial (ACD), Pinetree Capital (PNP), and Crown Capital Partners (CRWN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Urbana (TSE:URB) and Canadian Life Companies Split (TSE:LFE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
8.9% of Urbana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.9% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are held by institutional investors. 57.5% of Urbana shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Life Companies Split received 34 more outperform votes than Urbana when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.38% of users gave Urbana an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Canadian Life Companies Split an outperform vote.
Urbana pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Canadian Life Companies Split pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Urbana pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Life Companies Split pays out 20.2% 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.
Urbana has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Life Companies Split has a beta of 3.02, indicating that its stock price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Urbana has a net margin of 76.81% compared to Urbana's net margin of 50.77%. Urbana's return on equity of 25.40% beat Canadian Life Companies Split's return on equity.
In the previous week, Urbana had 15 more articles in the media than Canadian Life Companies Split. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Urbana and 0 mentions for Canadian Life Companies Split. Canadian Life Companies Split's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Urbana's score of 0.00 indicating that Urbana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Urbana has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Life Companies Split. Urbana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Life Companies Split, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Urbana beats Canadian Life Companies Split on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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