PIC.A vs. LBS, GS, BK, WED, OLY, AIM, URB, XLY, DC.A, and SBC
Should you be buying Premium Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Income include Life & Banc Split (LBS), Gluskin Sheff + Associates (GS), Canadian Banc (BK), Westaim (WED), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Aimia (AIM), Urbana (URB), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Dundee (DC.A), and Brompton Split Banc (SBC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Premium Income vs. Its Competitors
Life & Banc Split (TSE:LBS) and Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Life & Banc Split's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Premium Income'saverage media sentiment score.
Life & Banc Split has a net margin of 44.46% compared to Premium Income's net margin of 17.94%. Life & Banc Split's return on equity of 10.96% beat Premium Income's return on equity.
0.1% of Life & Banc Split shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Premium Income shares are held by institutional investors. 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.
Life & Banc Split pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.8%. Life & Banc Split pays out 32.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premium Income pays out 33.5% 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.
Life & Banc Split has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Income. Premium Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Life & Banc Split, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Life & Banc Split has a beta of 1.566142, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premium Income has a beta of 1.097139, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Life & Banc Split beats Premium Income on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PIC.A and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:PIC.A) was last updated on 9/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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