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Canadian General Investments (CGI) Competitors

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C$40.50 +0.15 (+0.37%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

CGI vs. CIX, FIH.U, SII, UNC, CVG, GCG.A, FSZ, SEC, DFN, and AGF.B

Should you be buying Canadian General Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian General Investments include CI Financial (CIX), Fairfax India (FIH.U), Sprott (SII), United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Fiera Capital (FSZ), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), and AGF Management (AGF.B). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Canadian General Investments vs.

Canadian General Investments (TSE:CGI) and CI Financial (TSE:CIX) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Canadian General Investments has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CI Financial has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, CI Financial had 14 more articles in the media than Canadian General Investments. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CI Financial and 0 mentions for Canadian General Investments. CI Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Canadian General Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that CI Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Canadian General Investments Neutral
CI Financial Positive

Canadian General Investments has a net margin of 80.99% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -1.54%. Canadian General Investments' return on equity of 13.23% beat CI Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Canadian General Investments80.99% 13.23% 8.12%
CI Financial -1.54%-4.48%4.87%

CI Financial received 360 more outperform votes than Canadian General Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.17% of users gave Canadian General Investments an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Canadian General InvestmentsOutperform Votes
88
66.17%
Underperform Votes
45
33.83%
CI FinancialOutperform Votes
448
58.33%
Underperform Votes
320
41.67%

Canadian General Investments pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. CI Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Canadian General Investments pays out 12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CI Financial pays out -296.3% 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. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

36.6% of Canadian General Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Canadian General Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of CI Financial shares are owned by company 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.

Canadian General Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian General Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Canadian General InvestmentsC$201.31M4.20C$163.04MC$7.815.19
CI FinancialC$3.50B0.96-C$53.93M-C$0.27-88.37

Canadian General Investments presently has a consensus price target of C$163.00, suggesting a potential upside of 302.47%. CI Financial has a consensus price target of C$24.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.68%. Given Canadian General Investments' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Canadian General Investments is more favorable than CI Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Canadian General Investments
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
CI Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Summary

Canadian General Investments beats CI Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CGI vs. The Competition

MetricCanadian General InvestmentsAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$844.83MC$807.16MC$3.26BC$6.25B
Dividend Yield2.49%13.33%4.58%5.27%
P/E Ratio5.19771.58441.2426.80
Price / Sales4.2013,880.573,277.411,531.29
Price / Cash0.6780.2548.2383.81
Price / Book0.651.701.483.15
Net IncomeC$163.04MC$57.49MC$396.75MC$299.38M
7 Day Performance0.02%0.03%0.15%0.76%
1 Month Performance-0.61%-0.50%7.05%12.82%
1 Year Performance16.75%9.96%15.54%44.03%

Canadian General Investments Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CGI
Canadian General Investments
1.2487 of 5 stars
C$40.50
+0.4%
C$163.00
+302.5%
+16.5%C$844.83MC$201.31M5.19N/A
CIX
CI Financial
1.2437 of 5 stars
C$23.86
-0.6%
C$24.50
+2.7%
+71.8%C$3.37BC$3.50B-88.37610Analyst Forecast
FIH.U
Fairfax India
N/AC$15.75
+2.0%
N/A+24.6%C$1.66BC$404.28M9.3812
SII
Sprott
1.4759 of 5 stars
C$61.50
+0.8%
C$67.00
+8.9%
+47.6%C$1.56BC$182.34M28.08170Dividend Increase
Ex-Dividend
Positive News
UNC
United Co.s
N/AC$130.00
-0.1%
N/A+14.2%C$1.46BC$421.33M4.25N/A
CVG
Clairvest Group
N/AC$69.49
+0.8%
N/A-3.5%C$1.02BC$38.72M694.9047
GCG.A
Guardian Capital Group
N/AC$40.50
-0.2%
C$53.00
+30.9%
+1.9%C$899.91MC$251.52M16.67N/A
FSZ
Fiera Capital
N/AC$9.59
-1.5%
C$6.25
-34.8%
+88.8%C$841.52MC$702.61M17.76845
SEC
Senvest Capital
N/AC$330.00
+1.5%
N/A+10.0%C$808.50MC$162.84M-1,000.0032High Trading Volume
DFN
Dividend 15 Split
N/AC$6.39
+0.3%
N/A+42.0%C$788.08MC$-22,030,000.005.65N/ANews Coverage
AGF.B
AGF Management
1.8964 of 5 stars
C$10.93
-0.6%
C$11.82
+8.2%
+52.9%C$697.99MC$517.16M8.54652

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This page (TSE:CGI) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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