GFP vs. GDL, WEF, ADN, LGD, USA, NEXT, WM, TMQ, GEO, and NB
Should you be buying GreenFirst Forest Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GreenFirst Forest Products include Goodfellow (GDL), Western Forest Products (WEF), Acadian Timber (ADN), Liberty Gold (LGD), Americas Silver (USA), NextSource Materials (NEXT), Wallbridge Mining (WM), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Geodrill (GEO), and NioCorp Developments (NB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) and Goodfellow (TSE:GDL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
36.2% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of Goodfellow shares are held by institutional investors. 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.9% of Goodfellow shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, GreenFirst Forest Products had 3 more articles in the media than Goodfellow. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for GreenFirst Forest Products and 2 mentions for Goodfellow. Goodfellow's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat GreenFirst Forest Products' score of -0.12 indicating that Goodfellow is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Goodfellow has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GreenFirst Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 120.0%. Goodfellow pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. GreenFirst Forest Products pays out -288.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Goodfellow pays out 57.8% 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. GreenFirst Forest Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Goodfellow has a net margin of 2.89% compared to GreenFirst Forest Products' net margin of -11.48%. Goodfellow's return on equity of 7.94% beat GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity.
Goodfellow received 77 more outperform votes than GreenFirst Forest Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.03% of users gave Goodfellow an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GreenFirst Forest Products an outperform vote.
Goodfellow has higher revenue and earnings than GreenFirst Forest Products. GreenFirst Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goodfellow, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Goodfellow beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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