EFN vs. ECI, SVI, BDI, NIR, WSP, RBA, GFL, TFII, STN, and TIH
Should you be buying Element Fleet Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Element Fleet Management include EnerCare (ECI), StorageVault Canada (SVI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), Noble Iron (NIR), WSP Global (WSP), RB Global (RBA), GFL Environmental (GFL), TFI International (TFII), Stantec (STN), and Toromont Industries (TIH).
EnerCare (TSE:ECI) and Element Fleet Management (TSE:EFN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Element Fleet Management has a consensus target price of C$28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.46%.
In the previous week, Element Fleet Management had 3 more articles in the media than EnerCare. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Element Fleet Management and 0 mentions for EnerCare. EnerCare's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Element Fleet Management's score of 0.00 indicating that Element Fleet Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Element Fleet Management has a net margin of 23.30% compared to Element Fleet Management's net margin of 0.00%. EnerCare's return on equity of 12.40% beat Element Fleet Management's return on equity.
EnerCare pays an annual dividend of C$0.97 per share. Element Fleet Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. EnerCare pays out 150.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Element Fleet Management pays out 39.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Element Fleet Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
53.6% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Element Fleet Management has higher revenue and earnings than EnerCare. EnerCare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Fleet Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Element Fleet Management received 225 more outperform votes than EnerCare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.67% of users gave Element Fleet Management an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave EnerCare an outperform vote.
Summary
Element Fleet Management beats EnerCare on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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