URB vs. LFE, PWI, XTD, FAP, DF, GCG, GDV, SBC, PNP, and ACD
Should you be buying Urbana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urbana include Canadian Life Companies Split (LFE), 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), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Pinetree Capital (PNP), and Accord Financial (ACD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Canadian Life Companies Split (TSE:LFE) and Urbana (TSE:URB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Canadian Life Companies Split has a beta of 3.02, suggesting that its stock price is 202% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urbana has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Urbana had 13 more articles in the media than Canadian Life Companies Split. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Urbana and 1 mentions for Canadian Life Companies Split. Urbana's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Canadian Life Companies Split's score of 0.08 indicating that Canadian Life Companies Split is being referred to more favorably in the media.
9.9% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.9% of Urbana shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Canadian Life Companies Split shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of Urbana shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Life Companies Split pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Urbana pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Canadian Life Companies Split pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Urbana pays out 7.1% 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.
Summary
Urbana beats Canadian Life Companies Split on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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