OLY vs. GCG.A, CGI, SEC, DFN, FSZ, AGF.B, WED, GS, FTN, and LBS
Should you be buying Olympia Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olympia Financial Group include Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Fiera Capital (FSZ), AGF Management (AGF.B), Westaim (WED), Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), Financial 15 Split (FTN), and Life & Banc Split (LBS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Olympia Financial Group (TSE:OLY) and Guardian Capital Group (TSE:GCG.A) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Olympia Financial Group currently has a consensus target price of C$134.83, indicating a potential upside of 31.22%. Guardian Capital Group has a consensus target price of C$55.67, indicating a potential upside of 24.67%. Given Olympia Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Olympia Financial Group is more favorable than Guardian Capital Group.
Olympia Financial Group pays an annual dividend of C$7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Guardian Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Olympia Financial Group pays out 75.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guardian Capital Group pays out 38.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Olympia Financial Group has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guardian Capital Group has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guardian Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Olympia Financial Group. Olympia Financial Group 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.
In the previous week, Olympia Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than Guardian Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Olympia Financial Group and 1 mentions for Guardian Capital Group. Guardian Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Olympia Financial Group's score of 0.13 indicating that Guardian Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Guardian Capital Group received 33 more outperform votes than Olympia Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.65% of users gave Olympia Financial Group an outperform vote while only 52.15% of users gave Guardian Capital Group an outperform vote.
Guardian Capital Group has a net margin of 38.72% compared to Olympia Financial Group's net margin of 24.00%. Olympia Financial Group's return on equity of 79.00% beat Guardian Capital Group's return on equity.
0.7% of Olympia Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 34.5% of Olympia Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Guardian Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Guardian Capital Group beats Olympia Financial Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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