IFA vs. UNI, DII.A, FOOD, ICE, TVA.B, IDG, ROOT, CJR.B, SXP, and SRV.UN
Should you be buying iFabric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iFabric include Unisync (UNI), Dorel Industries (DII.A), Goodfood Market (FOOD), Canlan Ice Sports (ICE), TVA Group (TVA.B), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Roots (ROOT), Corus Entertainment (CJR.B), Supremex (SXP), and SIR Royalty Income Fund (SRV.UN). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Unisync (TSE:UNI) and iFabric (TSE:IFA) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Unisync has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iFabric has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unisync had 2 more articles in the media than iFabric. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Unisync and 2 mentions for iFabric. iFabric's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Unisync's score of 0.20 indicating that Unisync is being referred to more favorably in the media.
8.2% of Unisync shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of iFabric shares are held by institutional investors. 36.7% of Unisync shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.3% of iFabric shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
iFabric has a net margin of -7.42% compared to iFabric's net margin of -10.83%. Unisync's return on equity of 2.57% beat iFabric's return on equity.
iFabric received 19 more outperform votes than Unisync when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave iFabric an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Unisync an outperform vote.
iFabric has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unisync. Unisync is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iFabric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
iFabric beats Unisync on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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