GCL vs. CRP, ADW.A, KPT, BU, SWP, CSW.A, HLF, LAS.A, CNT, and BR
Should you be buying Colabor Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colabor Group include Ceres Global (CRP), Andrew Peller (ADW.A), KP Tissue (KPT), Burcon NutraScience (BU), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Corby Spirit and Wine (CSW.A), High Liner Foods (HLF), Lassonde Industries (LAS.A), Century Global Commodities (CNT), and Big Rock Brewery (BR). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Colabor Group (TSE:GCL) and Ceres Global (TSE:CRP) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Colabor Group had 6 more articles in the media than Ceres Global. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Colabor Group and 1 mentions for Ceres Global. Ceres Global's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Colabor Group's score of -0.26 indicating that Ceres Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Colabor Group has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceres Global has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Colabor Group received 229 more outperform votes than Ceres Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.86% of users gave Colabor Group an outperform vote while only 63.03% of users gave Ceres Global an outperform vote.
Colabor Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ceres Global. Ceres Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colabor Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.0% of Colabor Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.7% of Ceres Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.0% of Colabor Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Ceres Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Colabor Group has a net margin of 0.85% compared to Ceres Global's net margin of 0.59%. Colabor Group's return on equity of 5.72% beat Ceres Global's return on equity.
Summary
Colabor Group beats Ceres Global on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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