GSY vs. AD.UN, CHW, VPY, CBL, ACD, RFC, CRWN, MPT, RNP, and MIT
Should you be buying goeasy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of goeasy include Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (AD.UN), Chesswood Group (CHW), Versapay (VPY), Callidus Capital (CBL), Accord Financial (ACD), Rifco (RFC), Crown Capital Partners (CRWN), Midpoint (MPT), Royalty North Partners (RNP), and Mint (MIT). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
goeasy (TSE:GSY) and Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) (TSE:AD.UN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
goeasy presently has a consensus target price of C$208.80, suggesting a potential upside of 14.39%. Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) has a consensus target price of C$20.70, suggesting a potential upside of 31.43%. Given Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) is more favorable than goeasy.
21.4% of goeasy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.9% of Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) shares are held by institutional investors. 22.2% of goeasy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
goeasy has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) received 81 more outperform votes than goeasy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.85% of users gave goeasy an outperform vote while only 70.87% of users gave Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) an outperform vote.
In the previous week, goeasy's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)'saverage media sentiment score.
Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) has a net margin of 88.30% compared to goeasy's net margin of 33.32%. goeasy's return on equity of 25.47% beat Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN)'s return on equity.
goeasy pays an annual dividend of C$4.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) pays an annual dividend of C$1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. goeasy pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) pays out 31.4% 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. Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
Summary
goeasy beats Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust (AD.UN) on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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