CAS vs. CCL.A, RPI.UN, WPK, TOY, TCL.A, MTY, MRE, PBL, ZZZ, and CTC
Should you be buying Cascades stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cascades include CCL Industries (CCL.A), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Winpak (WPK), Spin Master (TOY), Transcontinental (TCL.A), MTY Food Group (MTY), Martinrea International (MRE), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), and Canadian Tire (CTC). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
CCL Industries (TSE:CCL.A) and Cascades (TSE:CAS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Cascades had 10 more articles in the media than CCL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cascades and 2 mentions for CCL Industries. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat CCL Industries' score of 0.02 indicating that CCL Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CCL Industries has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cascades has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cascades has a consensus target price of C$11.83, suggesting a potential upside of 20.63%. Given CCL Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cascades is more favorable than CCL Industries.
CCL Industries pays an annual dividend of C$1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. CCL Industries pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cascades pays out -228.6% 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. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cascades received 372 more outperform votes than CCL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.07% of users gave CCL Industries an outperform vote while only 64.09% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote.
CCL Industries has a net margin of 8.25% compared to CCL Industries' net margin of -0.46%. Cascades' return on equity of 12.00% beat CCL Industries' return on equity.
CCL Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CCL Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.5% of CCL Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of Cascades shares are held by institutional investors. 95.4% of CCL Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of Cascades shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CCL Industries beats Cascades on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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