BR vs. WBR, BRB, FRN, INP, HEMP, DWS, MYLK, SNF, CNT, and OGO
Should you be buying Big Rock Brewery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Rock Brewery include Waterloo Brewing (WBR), Waterloo Brewing (BRB), Feronia (FRN), Input Capital (INP), Hempalta (HEMP), Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits (DWS), Planting Hope (MYLK), Sunora Foods (SNF), Century Global Commodities (CNT), and Organto Foods (OGO). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Waterloo Brewing (TSE:WBR) and Big Rock Brewery (TSE:BR) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
25.5% of Waterloo Brewing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Big Rock Brewery shares are held by institutional investors. 38.7% of Waterloo Brewing shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.9% of Big Rock Brewery shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Waterloo Brewing has higher revenue and earnings than Big Rock Brewery. Big Rock Brewery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waterloo Brewing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Big Rock Brewery had 1 more articles in the media than Waterloo Brewing. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Big Rock Brewery and 1 mentions for Waterloo Brewing. Big Rock Brewery's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Waterloo Brewing's score of 0.32 indicating that Waterloo Brewing is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Waterloo Brewing has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big Rock Brewery has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waterloo Brewing pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Big Rock Brewery pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 65.0%. Waterloo Brewing pays out 400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Big Rock Brewery pays out -97.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Big Rock Brewery is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Big Rock Brewery received 82 more outperform votes than Waterloo Brewing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.85% of users gave Big Rock Brewery an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Waterloo Brewing an outperform vote.
Waterloo Brewing has a net margin of 0.90% compared to Waterloo Brewing's net margin of -13.76%. Big Rock Brewery's return on equity of 2.69% beat Waterloo Brewing's return on equity.
Summary
Waterloo Brewing beats Big Rock Brewery on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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