LNF vs. ZZZ, CTC, GBT, NFI, MTY, TOY, PBL, TCL.A, CAS, and RCH
Should you be buying Leon's Furniture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leon's Furniture include Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canadian Tire (CTC), BMTC Group (GBT), NFI Group (NFI), MTY Food Group (MTY), Spin Master (TOY), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Cascades (CAS), and Richelieu Hardware (RCH). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) and Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Leon's Furniture pays out 35.6% 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.
In the previous week, Sleep Country Canada had 8 more articles in the media than Leon's Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sleep Country Canada and 3 mentions for Leon's Furniture. Sleep Country Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Leon's Furniture's score of -0.02 indicating that Leon's Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Leon's Furniture has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Leon's Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sleep Country Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Sleep Country Canada's net margin of 5.66%. Leon's Furniture's return on equity of 16.85% beat Sleep Country Canada's return on equity.
Sleep Country Canada presently has a consensus target price of C$32.29, suggesting a potential upside of 18.26%. Leon's Furniture has a consensus target price of C$23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.89%. Given Leon's Furniture's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sleep Country Canada is more favorable than Leon's Furniture.
59.3% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.8% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.6% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by 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.
Sleep Country Canada received 412 more outperform votes than Leon's Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Leon's Furniture on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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