URB vs. SBC, PBY.UN, GDV, DF, GCG, FCF, DC.A, ECF.UN, FAP, and GMN
Should you be buying Urbana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Urbana include Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF), Guardian Capital Group (GCG), Founders Advantage Capital Corp. (FCF.V) (FCF), Dundee (DC.A), East Coast Investment Grade Inc Unt (ECF.UN), abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (FAP), and GobiMin (GMN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brompton Split Banc (TSE:SBC) and Urbana (TSE:URB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Brompton Split Banc has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Urbana has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brompton Split Banc received 18 more outperform votes than Urbana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Brompton Split Banc an outperform vote while only 65.38% of users gave Urbana an outperform vote.
8.9% of Urbana shares are held by institutional investors. 57.5% of Urbana shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Brompton Split Banc pays an annual dividend of C$1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Urbana pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Brompton Split Banc pays out 173.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Urbana pays out 7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Urbana has higher revenue and earnings than Brompton Split Banc. Urbana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brompton Split Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urbana has a net margin of 76.81% compared to Urbana's net margin of 40.33%. Brompton Split Banc's return on equity of 20.32% beat Urbana's return on equity.
In the previous week, Urbana had 1 more articles in the media than Brompton Split Banc. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Urbana and 0 mentions for Brompton Split Banc. Brompton Split Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Urbana's score of 0.00 indicating that Urbana is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Urbana beats Brompton Split Banc on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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