PIC.A vs. BK, XLY, OLY, AIM, URB, PBY.UN, SBC, DC.A, AVK, and GDV
Should you be buying Premium Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Premium Income include Canadian Banc (BK), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Aimia (AIM), Urbana (URB), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Dundee (DC.A), Avnel Gold Mining (AVK), and Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Premium Income vs.
Premium Income (TSE:PIC.A) and Canadian Banc (TSE:BK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Canadian Banc received 60 more outperform votes than Premium Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Premium Income an outperform vote while only 60.95% of users gave Canadian Banc an outperform vote.
Canadian Banc has a net margin of 59.55% compared to Premium Income's net margin of 17.94%. Canadian Banc's return on equity of 21.73% beat Premium Income's return on equity.
Premium Income pays an annual dividend of C$0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.9%. Canadian Banc pays an annual dividend of C$1.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. Premium Income pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Banc pays out 80.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Premium Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Premium Income had 1 more articles in the media than Canadian Banc. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Premium Income and 0 mentions for Canadian Banc. Canadian Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Premium Income's score of -1.05 indicating that Canadian Banc is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Premium Income has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Banc has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Banc has higher revenue and earnings than Premium Income. Premium Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Canadian Banc beats Premium Income on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:PIC.A) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
