IGM vs. BAM, ONEX, CIX, SII, FIH.U, UNC, CVG, GCG.A, CGI, and SEC Should you be buying IGM Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IGM Financial include Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), Onex (ONEX), CI Financial (CIX), Sprott (SII), Fairfax India (FIH.U), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Canadian General Investments (CGI), and Senvest Capital (SEC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
IGM Financial (TSE:IGM ) and Brookfield Asset Management (TSE:BAM ) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
IGM Financial pays an annual dividend of C$2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of C$2.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. IGM Financial pays out 69.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 143.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IGM Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
IGM Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brookfield Asset Management. IGM Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IGM Financial presently has a consensus target price of C$44.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.85%. Given IGM Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IGM Financial is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.
8.0% of IGM Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. 59.2% of IGM Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brookfield Asset Management has a net margin of 45.32% compared to IGM Financial's net margin of 27.67%. Brookfield Asset Management's return on equity of 18.79% beat IGM Financial's return on equity.
In the previous week, IGM Financial and IGM Financial both had 3 articles in the media. Brookfield Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat IGM Financial's score of 0.78 indicating that Brookfield Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IGM Financial received 62 more outperform votes than Brookfield Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.59% of users gave Brookfield Asset Management an outperform vote while only 45.12% of users gave IGM Financial an outperform vote.
Summary IGM Financial beats Brookfield Asset Management on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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