PIC.A vs. AIM, OLY, SBC, PBY.UN, GDV, DF, GCG, FCF, DC.A, and ECF.UN
Should you be buying Premium Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Income include Aimia (AIM), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Founders Advantage Capital Corp. (FCF.V) (FCF), Dundee (DC.A), and East Coast Investment Grade Inc Unt (ECF.UN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) and Aimia (TSE:AIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Premium Income has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aimia has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Premium Income has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aimia. Aimia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Premium Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
32.6% of Aimia shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Aimia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Premium Income had 1 more articles in the media than Aimia. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Premium Income and 2 mentions for Aimia. Aimia's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Premium Income's score of 0.42 indicating that Aimia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premium Income has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Aimia's net margin of -55.10%. Aimia's return on equity of -26.03% beat Premium Income's return on equity.
Aimia received 384 more outperform votes than Premium Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Premium Income an outperform vote while only 54.11% of users gave Aimia an outperform vote.
Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.9%. Aimia pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 28.4%. Premium Income pays out -25.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aimia pays out -36.9% 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. Aimia is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Aimia has a consensus price target of C$4.25, indicating a potential upside of 50.71%. Given Aimia's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aimia is more favorable than Premium Income.
Summary
Aimia beats Premium Income on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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