DOL vs. WN, L, MRU, SAP, EMP.A, PRMW, PBH, MFI, NWC, and JWEL
Should you be buying Dollarama stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dollarama include George Weston (WN), Loblaw Companies (L), Metro (MRU), Saputo (SAP), Empire (EMP.A), Primo Water (PRMW), Premium Brands (PBH), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), North West (NWC), and Jamieson Wellness (JWEL). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
George Weston (TSE:WN) and Dollarama (TSE:DOL) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
George Weston currently has a consensus price target of C$201.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.14%. Dollarama has a consensus price target of C$109.36, suggesting a potential downside of 5.41%. Given Dollarama's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe George Weston is more favorable than Dollarama.
George Weston has higher revenue and earnings than Dollarama. George Weston is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dollarama, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dollarama had 1 more articles in the media than George Weston. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Dollarama and 7 mentions for George Weston. George Weston's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Dollarama's score of 0.21 indicating that Dollarama is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dollarama has a net margin of 16.63% compared to Dollarama's net margin of 2.56%. George Weston's return on equity of 516.91% beat Dollarama's return on equity.
Dollarama received 440 more outperform votes than George Weston when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave George Weston an outperform vote while only 63.43% of users gave Dollarama an outperform vote.
George Weston pays an annual dividend of C$2.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Dollarama pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. George Weston pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dollarama pays out 8.4% 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.
George Weston has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dollarama has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
15.1% of George Weston shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Dollarama shares are held by institutional investors. 58.6% of George Weston shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Dollarama shares are held 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
Dollarama beats George Weston on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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