LNF vs. ZZZ, CTC, GBT, NFI, MTY, TOY, CAS, TCL.A, MRE, and PBL
Should you be buying Leon's Furniture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leon's Furniture include Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canadian Tire (CTC), BMTC Group (GBT), NFI Group (NFI), MTY Food Group (MTY), Spin Master (TOY), Cascades (CAS), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Martinrea International (MRE), and Pollard Banknote (PBL). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) and Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
5.8% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by institutional investors. 69.6% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Leon's Furniture pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% 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.
Leon's Furniture presently has a consensus price target of C$24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.95%. Sleep Country Canada has a consensus price target of C$30.79, suggesting a potential upside of 17.50%. Given Sleep Country Canada's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sleep Country Canada is more favorable than Leon's Furniture.
Leon's Furniture has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Leon's Furniture 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.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Leon's Furniture's net margin of 5.78%. Sleep Country Canada's return on equity of 16.85% beat Leon's Furniture's return on equity.
Sleep Country Canada received 412 more outperform votes than Leon's Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.18% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote while only 59.87% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote.
Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leon's Furniture had 1 more articles in the media than Sleep Country Canada. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Leon's Furniture and 5 mentions for Sleep Country Canada. Leon's Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Sleep Country Canada's score of 0.08 indicating that Leon's Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Leon's Furniture on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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