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Urbana (URB) Competitors

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C$6.97 +0.07 (+1.01%)
As of 08/1/2025 10:48 AM Eastern

URB vs. CVG, GCG, GCG.A, CGI, SEC, DFN, AGF.B, FTN, LBS, and WED

Should you be buying Urbana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urbana include Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), AGF Management (AGF.B), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), and Westaim (WED). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Urbana vs. Its Competitors

Urbana (TSE:URB) and Clairvest Group (TSE:CVG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Urbana has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clairvest Group has a beta of -0.03, meaning that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Urbana pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Clairvest Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Urbana pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Clairvest Group pays out 1.7% 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.

In the previous week, Urbana had 10 more articles in the media than Clairvest Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Urbana and 1 mentions for Clairvest Group. Clairvest Group's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Urbana's score of 0.19 indicating that Clairvest Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Urbana
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Clairvest Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

9.6% of Urbana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Clairvest Group shares are held by institutional investors. 57.6% of Urbana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 82.3% of Clairvest Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Clairvest Group has higher revenue and earnings than Urbana. Urbana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clairvest Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UrbanaC$32.17M8.72C$66.13MC$1.694.12
Clairvest GroupC$125.89M8.57C$83.21MC$5.7812.97

Urbana has a net margin of 205.53% compared to Clairvest Group's net margin of 66.09%. Urbana's return on equity of 16.84% beat Clairvest Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Urbana205.53% 16.84% 16.83%
Clairvest Group 66.09%7.14%0.17%

Summary

Urbana beats Clairvest Group on 8 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 URB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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URB vs. The Competition

MetricUrbanaAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$280.57MC$1.29BC$6.33BC$6.20B
Dividend Yield2.10%4.40%4.19%6.72%
P/E Ratio4.1222.3714.0463.43
Price / Sales8.722,540.331,847.241,251.00
Price / Cash1,080.0060.70127.5383.29
Price / Book0.681.452.244.87
Net IncomeC$66.13MC$265.04MC$1.23BC$301.20M
7 Day Performance1.16%-0.46%6.10%-2.26%
1 Month Performance7.23%0.53%1.84%0.81%
1 Year Performance31.26%6.39%19.34%26.63%

Urbana Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
URB
Urbana
N/AC$6.97
+1.0%
N/A+29.1%C$280.57MC$32.17M4.122
CVG
Clairvest Group
N/AC$76.05
+0.1%
N/A+7.1%C$1.09BC$125.89M13.1547News Coverage
GCG
Guardian Capital Group
1.2746 of 5 stars
C$43.26
-2.5%
C$45.00
+4.0%
-0.4%C$1.06BC$290.83M9.69600News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
GCG.A
Guardian Capital Group
3.382 of 5 stars
C$42.00
+0.0%
C$52.00
+23.8%
-7.9%C$933.24MC$251.52M17.28N/ANews Coverage
CGI
Canadian General Investments
2.5238 of 5 stars
C$40.79
+0.5%
N/A+1.7%C$858.32MC$257.78M5.26N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
SEC
Senvest Capital
N/AC$347.77
flat
N/AN/AC$849.47MC$442.41M3.6232
DFN
Dividend 15 Split
N/AC$6.52
flat
N/A+27.2%C$811.33MC$245.88M6.04N/ADividend Announcement
High Trading Volume
AGF.B
AGF Management
2.9295 of 5 stars
C$12.64
+0.4%
C$13.83
+9.4%
+48.0%C$807.19MC$517.16M9.88652
FTN
Financial 15 Split
N/AC$10.03
+0.1%
N/A+17.8%C$606.50MC$254.82M3.45N/ADividend Announcement
LBS
Life & Banc Split
N/AC$9.83
+0.3%
N/A+24.6%C$460.19MC$84.19M12.38N/A
WED
Westaim
0.1329 of 5 stars
C$30.49
+3.5%
C$7.75
-74.6%
+645.5%C$450.46MC$10.20M68.983,240News Coverage
High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:URB) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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