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Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A) Competitors

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C$43.01 -0.99 (-2.25%)
As of 02/21/2025 03:43 PM Eastern

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

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

Guardian Capital Group vs.

Fairfax India (TSE:FIH.U) and Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG.A) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.

31.8% of Fairfax India shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.8% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 27.5% of Fairfax India shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Fairfax India has higher revenue and earnings than Guardian Capital Group. Fairfax India is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guardian Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Fairfax IndiaC$404.28M4.80C$228.56MC$1.6810.98
Guardian Capital GroupC$251.52M3.80C$62.21MC$2.4317.70

Fairfax India has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Fairfax India has a net margin of 56.53% compared to Guardian Capital Group's net margin of 24.73%. Fairfax India's return on equity of 7.81% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fairfax India56.53% 7.81% 5.34%
Guardian Capital Group 24.73%5.26%2.48%

Guardian Capital Group has a consensus target price of C$53.33, indicating a potential upside of 24.00%. Given Guardian Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Guardian Capital Group is more favorable than Fairfax India.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fairfax India
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Guardian Capital Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Fairfax India received 33 more outperform votes than Guardian Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Fairfax India an outperform vote while only 52.11% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Fairfax IndiaOutperform Votes
132
57.89%
Underperform Votes
96
42.11%
Guardian Capital GroupOutperform Votes
99
52.11%
Underperform Votes
91
47.89%

In the previous week, Fairfax India had 3 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Fairfax India and 0 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Fairfax India's score of 0.91 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Fairfax India Positive
Guardian Capital Group Positive

Summary

Fairfax India beats Guardian Capital Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GCG.A vs. The Competition

MetricGuardian Capital GroupAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$955.68MC$1.23BC$4.25BC$5.69B
Dividend Yield3.70%4.47%4.22%6.47%
P/E Ratio17.7026.9916.0530.21
Price / Sales3.802,363.881,767.19478.37
Price / Cash6.3160.5748.8082.56
Price / Book0.821.153.403.83
Net IncomeC$62.21MC$256.58MC$1.27BC$297.76M
7 Day Performance-5.72%-0.32%-0.17%-1.07%
1 Month Performance-4.97%0.63%1.82%1.41%
1 Year Performance-11.85%10.15%14.63%38.28%

Guardian Capital Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GCG.A
Guardian Capital Group
2.5765 of 5 stars
C$43.01
-2.3%
C$53.33
+24.0%
-12.0%C$955.68MC$251.52M17.70N/APositive News
FIH.U
Fairfax India
N/AC$19.08
-1.9%
N/A+26.4%C$2.01BC$404.28M11.3612News Coverage
High Trading Volume
UNC
United Co.s
N/AC$126.50
-10.6%
N/A+11.2%C$1.42BC$464.39M3.58N/AGap Down
SII
Sprott
0.3429 of 5 stars
C$60.83
-2.4%
C$67.00
+10.1%
+23.4%C$1.09BC$114.38M23.71170
GCG
Guardian Capital Group
2.6408 of 5 stars
C$43.98
+0.4%
C$51.00
+16.0%
-10.0%C$1.07BC$290.83M9.85600
CVG
Clairvest Group
N/AC$70.00
+3.3%
N/A-8.2%C$1.01BC$125.89M12.1147News Coverage
SEC
Senvest Capital
N/AC$400.00
flat
N/AN/AC$977.05MC$442.41M4.1632
CGI
Canadian General Investments
2.0096 of 5 stars
C$40.54
+0.3%
C$163.00
+302.1%
+11.2%C$853.06MC$257.78M5.23N/A
FSZ
Fiera Capital
N/AC$7.37
+0.1%
C$6.25
-15.2%
-1.6%C$797.03MC$702.14M12.36845
DFN
Dividend 15 Split
N/AC$5.80
-0.7%
N/A+8.3%C$721.74MC$245.88M5.38N/ANews Coverage
AGF.B
AGF Management
2.3437 of 5 stars
C$10.84
+1.1%
C$12.46
+15.0%
+51.4%C$692.24MC$517.16M8.47652Insider Trade
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This page (TSE:GCG.A) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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