RSI vs. MFI, NWC, JWEL, SOY, VFF, CLR, LAS.A, AGT, HLF, and CSW.A
Should you be buying Rogers Sugar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rogers Sugar include Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), North West (NWC), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Village Farms International (VFF), Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO) (CLR), Lassonde Industries (LAS.A), AGT Food and Ingredients (AGT), High Liner Foods (HLF), and Corby Spirit and Wine (CSW.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Rogers Sugar (TSE:RSI) and Maple Leaf Foods (TSE:MFI) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Rogers Sugar had 1 more articles in the media than Maple Leaf Foods. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Rogers Sugar and 2 mentions for Maple Leaf Foods. Rogers Sugar's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Maple Leaf Foods' score of 0.00 indicating that Rogers Sugar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
12.6% of Rogers Sugar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.8% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Rogers Sugar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.1% of Maple Leaf Foods shares are owned 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.
Rogers Sugar has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maple Leaf Foods has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rogers Sugar has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Sugar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maple Leaf Foods received 360 more outperform votes than Rogers Sugar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.21% of users gave Maple Leaf Foods an outperform vote while only 45.83% of users gave Rogers Sugar an outperform vote.
Rogers Sugar pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Maple Leaf Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Rogers Sugar pays out 83.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Maple Leaf Foods pays out -676.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Rogers Sugar currently has a consensus price target of C$6.60, suggesting a potential upside of 13.21%. Maple Leaf Foods has a consensus price target of C$30.07, suggesting a potential upside of 33.06%. Given Maple Leaf Foods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Maple Leaf Foods is more favorable than Rogers Sugar.
Rogers Sugar has a net margin of 4.64% compared to Maple Leaf Foods' net margin of -0.32%. Rogers Sugar's return on equity of 15.14% beat Maple Leaf Foods' return on equity.
Summary
Rogers Sugar beats Maple Leaf Foods on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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