DNTL vs. SIA, WELL, EXE, WEED, CRON, GUD, ACB, KSI, FRX, and VHI
Should you be buying dentalcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of dentalcorp include Sienna Senior Living (SIA), WELL Health Technologies (WELL), Extendicare (EXE), Canopy Growth (WEED), Cronos Group (CRON), Knight Therapeutics (GUD), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), kneat.com (KSI), Fennec Pharmaceuticals (FRX), and Vitalhub (VHI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
dentalcorp (TSE:DNTL) and Sienna Senior Living (TSE:SIA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Sienna Senior Living received 202 more outperform votes than dentalcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.41% of users gave dentalcorp an outperform vote while only 52.78% of users gave Sienna Senior Living an outperform vote.
51.3% of dentalcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Sienna Senior Living shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of dentalcorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Sienna Senior Living shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sienna Senior Living has a net margin of 3.29% compared to dentalcorp's net margin of -6.00%. Sienna Senior Living's return on equity of 6.83% beat dentalcorp's return on equity.
Sienna Senior Living has lower revenue, but higher earnings than dentalcorp. dentalcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sienna Senior Living, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
dentalcorp currently has a consensus price target of C$10.48, indicating a potential upside of 67.07%. Sienna Senior Living has a consensus price target of C$15.29, indicating a potential upside of 3.14%. Given dentalcorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe dentalcorp is more favorable than Sienna Senior Living.
dentalcorp has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sienna Senior Living has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sienna Senior Living had 4 more articles in the media than dentalcorp. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sienna Senior Living and 9 mentions for dentalcorp. Sienna Senior Living's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat dentalcorp's score of -0.58 indicating that Sienna Senior Living is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sienna Senior Living beats dentalcorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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