PIC.A vs. WED, GS, LBS, BK, XLY, AIM, OLY, URB, SBC, and PBY.UN
Should you be buying Premium Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Income include Westaim (WED), Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Aimia (AIM), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Urbana (URB), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), and Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Premium Income vs. Its Competitors
Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) and Westaim (CVE:WED) 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 risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
12.1% of Westaim shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Westaim shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Westaim has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Premium Income. Premium Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westaim, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westaim has a net margin of 44.28% compared to Premium Income's net margin of 17.94%. Premium Income's return on equity of 7.93% beat Westaim's return on equity.
Premium Income has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westaim has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Westaim pays an annual dividend of C$0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Premium Income pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westaim pays out 40.7% 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. Premium Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Westaim received 102 more outperform votes than Premium Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.28% of users gave Westaim an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Premium Income an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Premium Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Westaim'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Westaim beats Premium Income on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PIC.A and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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:PIC.A) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
