CGO vs. CCA, CGX, WILD, BRAG, FORA, Y, TGO, T, BCE, and EAGR
Should you be buying Cogeco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cogeco include Cogeco Communications (CCA), Cineplex (CGX), WildBrain (WILD), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), VerticalScope (FORA), Yellow Pages (Y), TeraGo (TGO), TELUS (T), BCE (BCE), and East Side Games Group (EAGR). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Cogeco Communications (TSE:CCA) and Cogeco (TSE:CGO) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Cogeco Communications presently has a consensus price target of C$69.69, indicating a potential upside of 28.36%. Cogeco has a consensus price target of C$82.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Given Cogeco Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cogeco is more favorable than Cogeco Communications.
45.2% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Cogeco shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Cogeco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, Cogeco Communications had 4 more articles in the media than Cogeco. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cogeco Communications and 1 mentions for Cogeco. Cogeco Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Cogeco's score of 0.34 indicating that Cogeco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 Communications has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cogeco has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cogeco Communications pays an annual dividend of C$3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Cogeco pays an annual dividend of C$3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Cogeco Communications pays out 41.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Summary
Cogeco Communications beats Cogeco on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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