TWC vs. TOY, AW.UN, GBT, RAY.A, RPI.UN, ACQ, BPF.UN, PZA, RAY.B, and XTC
Should you be buying TWC Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TWC Enterprises include Spin Master (TOY), A and W Revenue Royalties Income Fund (AW.UN), BMTC Group (GBT), Stingray Group (RAY.A), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), AutoCanada (ACQ), Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (BPF.UN), Pizza Pizza Royalty (PZA), Stingray Group (RAY.B), and Exco Technologies (XTC). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Spin Master (TSE:TOY) and TWC Enterprises (TSE:TWC) 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 earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Spin Master has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TWC Enterprises has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
50.9% of Spin Master shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of TWC Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Spin Master shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.8% of TWC Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TWC Enterprises has a net margin of 11.24% compared to TWC Enterprises' net margin of 5.05%. TWC Enterprises' return on equity of 7.63% beat Spin Master's return on equity.
Spin Master received 514 more outperform votes than TWC Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Spin Master an outperform vote while only 67.26% of users gave TWC Enterprises an outperform vote.
Spin Master pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. TWC Enterprises pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Spin Master pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TWC Enterprises pays out 25.0% 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. TWC Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Spin Master presently has a consensus price target of C$44.50, suggesting a potential upside of 51.10%. Given TWC Enterprises' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Spin Master is more favorable than TWC Enterprises.
Spin Master has higher revenue and earnings than TWC Enterprises. TWC Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spin Master, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Spin Master had 33 more articles in the media than TWC Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Spin Master and 1 mentions for TWC Enterprises. TWC Enterprises' average media sentiment score of -0.14 beat Spin Master's score of -0.84 indicating that Spin Master is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Spin Master beats TWC Enterprises on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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