CIXXF vs. JHG, AMG, LAZ, STEP, MC, AB, APAM, CNS, VCTR, and FHI
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Lazard (LAZ), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), and Federated Hermes (FHI). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Janus Henderson Group (NYSE:JHG) and CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Janus Henderson Group received 235 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.98% of users gave Janus Henderson Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
Janus Henderson Group pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Janus Henderson Group pays out 58.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CI Financial pays out -67.0% 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. Janus Henderson Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and CI Financial has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Janus Henderson Group has a net margin of 19.89% compared to Janus Henderson Group's net margin of -6.49%. Janus Henderson Group's return on equity of 42.97% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
Janus Henderson Group currently has a consensus target price of $30.37, suggesting a potential downside of 9.05%. Given CI Financial's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Janus Henderson Group is more favorable than CI Financial.
87.9% of Janus Henderson Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Janus Henderson Group shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Janus Henderson Group had 2 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Janus Henderson Group and 0 mentions for CI Financial. Janus Henderson Group's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat CI Financial's score of 1.29 indicating that CI Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Janus Henderson Group has higher revenue and earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Janus Henderson Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Janus Henderson Group has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Janus Henderson Group beats CI Financial on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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