WJX vs. HDI, DBM, RME, AAO, TIH, FTT, RUS, MSI, EIF, and BBU.UN
Should you be buying Wajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wajax include Hardwoods Distribution (HDI), Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) (RME), IntellaEquity (AAO), Toromont Industries (TIH), Finning International (FTT), Russel Metals (RUS), Morneau Shepell (MSI), Exchange Income (EIF), and Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hardwoods Distribution (TSE:HDI) and Wajax (TSE:WJX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Wajax had 1 more articles in the media than Hardwoods Distribution. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Wajax and 0 mentions for Hardwoods Distribution. Wajax's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Hardwoods Distribution'saverage media sentiment score.
24.1% of Wajax shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Wajax shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hardwoods Distribution pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share. Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Hardwoods Distribution pays out 4.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wajax pays out 39.9% 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.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.69% compared to Wajax's net margin of 0.00%. Hardwoods Distribution's return on equity of 16.32% beat Wajax's return on equity.
Wajax has a consensus price target of C$33.67, indicating a potential upside of 30.24%.
Wajax received 256 more outperform votes than Hardwoods Distribution when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.32% of users gave Hardwoods Distribution an outperform vote while only 50.95% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
Hardwoods Distribution has higher revenue and earnings than Wajax. Hardwoods Distribution is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wajax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wajax beats Hardwoods Distribution on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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