UNC vs. CIX, WED, FIH.U, SII, CVG, GCG.A, SEC, CGI, DFN, and AGF.B
Should you be buying United Co.s stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Co.s include CI Financial (CIX), Westaim (WED), Fairfax India (FIH.U), Sprott (SII), Clairvest Group (CVG), Guardian Capital Group (GCG.A), Senvest Capital (SEC), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), and AGF Management (AGF.B). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
United Co.s vs.
CI Financial (TSE:CIX) and United Co.s (TSE:UNC) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
15.0% of CI Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.8% of CI Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of United Co.s shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Co.s has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Co.s has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Co.s, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, United Co.s had 1 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for United Co.s and 3 mentions for CI Financial. United Co.s' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat CI Financial's score of 0.07 indicating that United Co.s is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CI Financial received 368 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 57.96% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
United Co.s has a net margin of 85.56% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -1.94%. United Co.s' return on equity of 17.19% beat CI Financial's return on equity.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. United Co.s pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. CI Financial pays out -166.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Co.s pays out 3.4% 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. CI Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CI Financial presently has a consensus target price of C$27.94, indicating a potential downside of 10.91%. Given CI Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe CI Financial is more favorable than United Co.s.
Summary
United Co.s beats CI Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:UNC) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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