PIC.A vs. WCM.A, DC.A, INC.UN, MMP.UN, PBY.UN, VRE, and BNK
Should you be buying Premium Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Income include Wilmington Capital Management (WCM.A), Dundee (DC.A), Income Financial Trust (INC.UN), Precious Metals And Mng Unt (MMP.UN), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF (VRE), and Big Banc Split (BNK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Wilmington Capital Management (TSE:WCM.A) and Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Wilmington Capital Management has a net margin of 108.27% compared to Wilmington Capital Management's net margin of 0.00%. Premium Income's return on equity of 7.76% beat Wilmington Capital Management's return on equity.
Wilmington Capital Management received 38 more outperform votes than Premium Income when rated by MarketBeat users.
Wilmington Capital Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 65.6%. Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.5%. Wilmington Capital Management pays out 1,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Premium Income pays out -25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Wilmington Capital Management has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Income has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Premium Income had 2 more articles in the media than Wilmington Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Premium Income and 0 mentions for Wilmington Capital Management. Wilmington Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Premium Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Premium Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wilmington Capital Management has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Income. Premium Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wilmington Capital Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wilmington Capital Management beats Premium Income on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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