CGX vs. WILD, CGO, FORA, CCA, Y, EAGR, TGO, EGLX, GVC, and T
Should you be buying Cineplex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cineplex include WildBrain (WILD), Cogeco (CGO), VerticalScope (FORA), Cogeco Communications (CCA), Yellow Pages (Y), East Side Games Group (EAGR), TeraGo (TGO), Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX), Glacier Media (GVC), and TELUS (T). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
WildBrain (TSE:WILD) and Cineplex (TSE:CGX) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Cineplex has a net margin of 14.54% compared to Cineplex's net margin of -15.25%. WildBrain's return on equity of 0.00% beat Cineplex's return on equity.
46.6% of WildBrain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Cineplex shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of WildBrain shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Cineplex shares are held by 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.
Cineplex has higher revenue and earnings than WildBrain. WildBrain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cineplex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cineplex received 770 more outperform votes than WildBrain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.63% of users gave Cineplex an outperform vote while only 23.81% of users gave WildBrain an outperform vote.
WildBrain has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cineplex has a beta of 2.79, meaning that its stock price is 179% more volatile than the S&P 500.
WildBrain pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Cineplex pays an annual dividend of C$1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.0%. WildBrain pays out -21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cineplex pays out 135.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, WildBrain and WildBrain both had 2 articles in the media. WildBrain's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Cineplex's score of 0.00 indicating that Cineplex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WildBrain currently has a consensus price target of C$1.88, suggesting a potential upside of 84.64%. Cineplex has a consensus price target of C$12.88, suggesting a potential upside of 64.43%. Given Cineplex's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe WildBrain is more favorable than Cineplex.
Summary
Cineplex beats WildBrain on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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