AND vs. CJT, PKG, SVI, RUS, MSI, EIF, BBU.UN, MDA, BAD, and BDGI
Should you be buying Andlauer Healthcare Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andlauer Healthcare Group include Cargojet (CJT), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Russel Metals (RUS), Morneau Shepell (MSI), Exchange Income (EIF), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), MDA Space (MDA), Badger Daylighting (BAD), and Badger Infrastructure Solutions (BDGI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Cargojet (TSE:CJT) and Andlauer Healthcare Group (TSE:AND) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Cargojet pays an annual dividend of C$1.26 per share. Andlauer Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Cargojet pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Andlauer Healthcare Group pays out 23.8% 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. Andlauer Healthcare Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cargojet received 316 more outperform votes than Andlauer Healthcare Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.92% of users gave Cargojet an outperform vote while only 33.67% of users gave Andlauer Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
Cargojet currently has a consensus target price of C$153.27, suggesting a potential upside of ∞. Andlauer Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of C$49.43, suggesting a potential upside of 27.10%. Given Andlauer Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cargojet is more favorable than Andlauer Healthcare Group.
52.8% of Cargojet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Andlauer Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Cargojet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Andlauer Healthcare Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Cargojet had 20 more articles in the media than Andlauer Healthcare Group. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Cargojet and 2 mentions for Andlauer Healthcare Group. Andlauer Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Cargojet's score of -0.82 indicating that Cargojet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Andlauer Healthcare Group has a net margin of 10.02% compared to Andlauer Healthcare Group's net margin of 4.48%. Cargojet's return on equity of 13.82% beat Andlauer Healthcare Group's return on equity.
Cargojet has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Andlauer Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Andlauer Healthcare Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cargojet. Cargojet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andlauer Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cargojet beats Andlauer Healthcare Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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