WJX vs. DBM, RUS, BBD.A, HRX, AND, CGY, ALC, GDI, BDI, and BDT
Should you be buying Wajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wajax include Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Russel Metals (RUS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Calian Group (CGY), Algoma Central (ALC), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), and Bird Construction (BDT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Wajax (TSE:WJX) and Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.
21.9% of Wajax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.6% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Wajax shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Wajax pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% 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.
Doman Building Materials Group received 127 more outperform votes than Wajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 50.88% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
Wajax has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wajax has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wajax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wajax had 1 more articles in the media than Doman Building Materials Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Wajax and 1 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Wajax's score of 0.00 indicating that Doman Building Materials Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.76% compared to Doman Building Materials Group's net margin of 3.04%. Wajax's return on equity of 17.12% beat Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity.
Wajax currently has a consensus target price of C$34.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.76%. Doman Building Materials Group has a consensus target price of C$10.29, suggesting a potential upside of 32.45%. Given Doman Building Materials Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Wajax.
Summary
Wajax beats Doman Building Materials Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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