TCL.A vs. ZZZ, TOY, PBL, CAS, MTY, MRE, CTC, CCL.A, GOOS, and NFI
Should you be buying Transcontinental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transcontinental include Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Spin Master (TOY), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Cascades (CAS), MTY Food Group (MTY), Martinrea International (MRE), Canadian Tire (CTC), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Canada Goose (GOOS), and NFI Group (NFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.A) and Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, Transcontinental and Transcontinental both had 7 articles in the media. Sleep Country Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Transcontinental's score of 0.10 indicating that Sleep Country Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sleep Country Canada received 263 more outperform votes than Transcontinental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.60% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote while only 55.35% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote.
38.1% of Transcontinental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Transcontinental shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Transcontinental's net margin of 3.39%. Sleep Country Canada's return on equity of 16.85% beat Transcontinental's return on equity.
Transcontinental currently has a consensus price target of C$19.08, suggesting a potential upside of 36.50%. Sleep Country Canada has a consensus price target of C$32.29, suggesting a potential upside of 15.22%. Given Transcontinental's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Transcontinental is more favorable than Sleep Country Canada.
Transcontinental has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Transcontinental 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.
Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Transcontinental pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Transcontinental has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Transcontinental on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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