Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN) Competitors

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (TSE:AD.UN) and goeasy (TSE:GSY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Is AD.UN or GSY more profitable?

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) has a net margin of 97.33% compared to goeasy's net margin of 19.49%. goeasy's return on equity of 25.26% beat Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)'s return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)	97.33%	22.20%	9.85%
goeasy	19.49%	25.26%	6.39%

Is AD.UN or GSY a better dividend stock?

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) pays an annual dividend of C$1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. goeasy pays an annual dividend of C$4.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) pays out 30.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. goeasy pays out 28.4% 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.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in AD.UN or GSY?

5.5% of Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of goeasy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of goeasy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer AD.UN or GSY?

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) currently has a consensus target price of C$26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.31%. goeasy has a consensus target price of C$223.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.74%. Given goeasy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe goeasy is more favorable than Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN).

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
goeasy	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.88

Does the media prefer AD.UN or GSY?

In the previous week, goeasy had 1 more articles in the media than Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN). MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for goeasy and 2 mentions for Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN). goeasy's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)'s score of 0.54 indicating that goeasy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
goeasy	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor AD.UN or GSY?

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) received 76 more outperform votes than goeasy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.26% of users gave goeasy an outperform vote while only 70.69% of users gave Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)	Outperform Votes 451 70.69%	Underperform Votes 187 29.31%
goeasy	Outperform Votes 375 74.26%	Underperform Votes 130 25.74%

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, AD.UN or GSY?

goeasy has higher revenue and earnings than Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN). Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than goeasy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)	C$215.71M	4.16	C$209.96M	C$4.49	4.39
goeasy	C$1.42B	1.79	C$277.52M	C$16.45	9.24

Which has more risk and volatility, AD.UN or GSY?

Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, goeasy has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

goeasy beats Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.