CIXXF vs. JHG, AMG, LAZ, STEP, MC, AB, APAM, CNS, VCTR, and FHI
Should you be buying CI Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CI Financial include Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Lazard (LAZ), StepStone Group (STEP), Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), and Federated Hermes (FHI). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
CI Financial (NYSE:CIXXF) and Janus Henderson Group (NYSE:JHG) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Janus Henderson Group has higher revenue and earnings than CI Financial. CI Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Janus Henderson Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CI Financial has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Janus Henderson Group has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CI Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Janus Henderson Group pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. CI Financial pays out -67.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Janus Henderson Group pays out 58.9% 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.
In the previous week, Janus Henderson Group had 3 more articles in the media than CI Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Janus Henderson Group and 0 mentions for CI Financial. Janus Henderson Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat CI Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Janus Henderson Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Janus Henderson Group has a net margin of 19.89% compared to CI Financial's net margin of -6.49%. CI Financial's return on equity of 42.97% beat Janus Henderson Group's return on equity.
Janus Henderson Group received 235 more outperform votes than CI Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.98% of users gave Janus Henderson Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CI Financial an outperform vote.
Janus Henderson Group has a consensus target price of $30.37, indicating a potential downside of 9.35%. Given Janus Henderson Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Janus Henderson Group is more favorable than CI Financial.
87.9% of Janus Henderson Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Janus Henderson Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Janus Henderson Group beats CI Financial on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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