DBM vs. WJX, RUS, CGY, HRX, AND, ALC, GDI, BDI, DIV, and ISV
Should you be buying Doman Building Materials Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Doman Building Materials Group include Wajax (WJX), Russel Metals (RUS), Calian Group (CGY), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Algoma Central (ALC), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), Diversified Royalty (DIV), and Information Services (ISV). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM) and Wajax (TSE:WJX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Doman Building Materials Group's net margin of 3.04%. Wajax's return on equity of 16.32% beat Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity.
Doman Building Materials Group currently has a consensus price target of C$10.29, indicating a potential upside of 37.04%. Wajax has a consensus price target of C$33.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.46%. Given Doman Building Materials Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Wajax.
4.5% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Wajax shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.9% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Wajax shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wajax has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wajax has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Doman Building Materials Group. Wajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Doman Building Materials Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Doman Building Materials Group received 125 more outperform votes than Wajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 50.95% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Wajax had 3 more articles in the media than Doman Building Materials Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Wajax and 5 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Wajax's score of -0.17 indicating that Doman Building Materials Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wajax pays out 39.9% 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.
Summary
Doman Building Materials Group beats Wajax on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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