CCA vs. CGO, CGX, TGO, T, BCE, WILD, BRAG, FORA, Y, and EAGR
Should you be buying Cogeco Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cogeco Communications include Cogeco (CGO), Cineplex (CGX), TeraGo (TGO), TELUS (T), BCE (BCE), WildBrain (WILD), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), VerticalScope (FORA), Yellow Pages (Y), and East Side Games Group (EAGR). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Cogeco (TSE:CGO) and Cogeco Communications (TSE:CCA) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Cogeco currently has a consensus price target of C$82.00, indicating a potential upside of 55.78%. Cogeco Communications has a consensus price target of C$69.69, indicating a potential upside of 25.74%. Given Cogeco Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cogeco is more favorable than Cogeco Communications.
In the previous week, Cogeco Communications had 1 more articles in the media than Cogeco. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Cogeco Communications and 0 mentions for Cogeco. Cogeco Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Cogeco'saverage media sentiment score.
33.7% of Cogeco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.2% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Cogeco shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cogeco Communications received 183 more outperform votes than Cogeco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.87% of users gave Cogeco an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Cogeco Communications an outperform vote.
Cogeco has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cogeco Communications has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cogeco Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cogeco. Cogeco Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cogeco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cogeco Communications has a net margin of 12.47% compared to Cogeco Communications' net margin of 2.06%. Cogeco's return on equity of 11.58% beat Cogeco Communications' return on equity.
Cogeco pays an annual dividend of C$3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Cogeco Communications pays an annual dividend of C$3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Cogeco pays out 84.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cogeco Communications pays out 41.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Cogeco Communications beats Cogeco on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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