BN vs. BMO, BNS, MFC, CM, TD, SLF, IFC, GWO, NA, and FFH
Should you be buying Brookfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield include Bank of Montreal (BMO), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), Manulife Financial (MFC), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Intact Financial (IFC), Great-West Lifeco (GWO), National Bank of Canada (NA), and Fairfax Financial (FFH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Brookfield (TSE:BN) and Bank of Montreal (TSE:BMO) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
Brookfield currently has a consensus price target of C$44.00, indicating a potential downside of 27.31%. Bank of Montreal has a consensus price target of C$133.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.85%. Given Bank of Montreal's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bank of Montreal is more favorable than Brookfield.
Brookfield has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Montreal has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of Montreal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Brookfield. Bank of Montreal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Montreal has a net margin of 17.71% compared to Brookfield's net margin of 1.14%. Bank of Montreal's return on equity of 7.28% beat Brookfield's return on equity.
Bank of Montreal received 638 more outperform votes than Brookfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Brookfield an outperform vote while only 52.66% of users gave Bank of Montreal an outperform vote.
Brookfield pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Bank of Montreal pays an annual dividend of C$6.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Brookfield pays out 53.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of Montreal pays out 83.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Bank of Montreal had 10 more articles in the media than Brookfield. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bank of Montreal and 0 mentions for Brookfield. Bank of Montreal's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Brookfield's score of 0.00 indicating that Bank of Montreal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.5% of Brookfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of Bank of Montreal shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.5% of Brookfield shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Bank of Montreal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bank of Montreal beats Brookfield on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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