ROOT vs. ATZ, BPF.UN, CLIQ, RPI.UN, PZA, XTC, CKI, ITX, GH, and DHX
Should you be buying Roots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roots include Aritzia (ATZ), Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (BPF.UN), Alcanna (CLIQ), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Pizza Pizza Royalty (PZA), Exco Technologies (XTC), Clarke (CKI), Intertain Group (ITX), Gamehost (GH), and Wild Brain. (DHX). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Aritzia (TSE:ATZ) and Roots (TSE:ROOT) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Aritzia has higher revenue and earnings than Roots. Roots is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aritzia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Aritzia had 1 more articles in the media than Roots. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Aritzia and 0 mentions for Roots. Roots' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Aritzia's score of 0.00 indicating that Aritzia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aritzia received 134 more outperform votes than Roots when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.74% of users gave Aritzia an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote.
Aritzia has a net margin of 3.38% compared to Aritzia's net margin of 0.70%. Roots' return on equity of 10.55% beat Aritzia's return on equity.
Aritzia has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roots has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its share price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aritzia currently has a consensus target price of C$41.60, indicating a potential upside of 10.43%. Roots has a consensus target price of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 49.08%. Given Aritzia's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Roots is more favorable than Aritzia.
51.5% of Aritzia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.1% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Aritzia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Roots shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Aritzia beats Roots on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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