SII vs. UNC, CVG, CIX, CGI, SEC, DFN, FTN, GLXY, LB, and TSU
Should you be buying Sprott stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott include United Co.s (UNC), Clairvest Group (CVG), CI Financial (CIX), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Senvest Capital (SEC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB), and Trisura Group (TSU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
United Co.s (TSE:UNC) and Sprott (TSE:SII) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. United Co.s pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sprott pays out 57.6% 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.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 6 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for United Co.s and 3 mentions for Sprott. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat United Co.s' score of -0.19 indicating that United Co.s is being referred to more favorably in the media.
United Co.s has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
United Co.s has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott. United Co.s is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
37.9% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. 81.2% of United Co.s shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of Sprott shares are owned by insiders. 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.
United Co.s has a net margin of 83.20% compared to United Co.s' net margin of 26.79%. Sprott's return on equity of 16.60% beat United Co.s' return on equity.
Sprott has a consensus target price of C$63.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.86%. Given United Co.s' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sprott is more favorable than United Co.s.
Sprott received 240 more outperform votes than United Co.s when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.07% of users gave United Co.s an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
Summary
United Co.s beats Sprott on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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