NFI vs. MTY, LNF, TOY, PBL, TCL.A, CAS, ZZZ, MRE, CCL.A, and CTC
Should you be buying NFI Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NFI Group include MTY Food Group (MTY), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Spin Master (TOY), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Cascades (CAS), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Martinrea International (MRE), CCL Industries (CCL.A), and Canadian Tire (CTC). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
MTY Food Group (TSE:MTY) and NFI Group (TSE:NFI) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
MTY Food Group has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NFI Group has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.4% of MTY Food Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.1% of NFI Group shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of MTY Food Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of NFI Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MTY Food Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NFI Group. NFI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MTY Food Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MTY Food Group has a net margin of 8.86% compared to MTY Food Group's net margin of -5.07%. NFI Group's return on equity of 13.23% beat MTY Food Group's return on equity.
MTY Food Group pays an annual dividend of C$1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. NFI Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. MTY Food Group pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NFI Group pays out -10.4% 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.
NFI Group received 26 more outperform votes than MTY Food Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.39% of users gave NFI Group an outperform vote while only 57.82% of users gave MTY Food Group an outperform vote.
MTY Food Group presently has a consensus target price of C$54.29, suggesting a potential upside of 12.56%. NFI Group has a consensus target price of C$18.58, suggesting a potential upside of 44.28%. Given MTY Food Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NFI Group is more favorable than MTY Food Group.
In the previous week, NFI Group had 3 more articles in the media than MTY Food Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for NFI Group and 7 mentions for MTY Food Group. MTY Food Group's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat NFI Group's score of 0.15 indicating that NFI Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MTY Food Group and NFI Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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