WPK vs. CAS, CCL.A, ATZ, DOO, RCH, NFI, LNF, LNR, MTY, and TOY
Should you be buying Winpak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Winpak include Cascades (CAS), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Aritzia (ATZ), BRP (DOO), Richelieu Hardware (RCH), NFI Group (NFI), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Linamar (LNR), MTY Food Group (MTY), and Spin Master (TOY). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Winpak (TSE:WPK) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
31.6% of Cascades shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Winpak shares are held by institutional investors. 23.8% of Cascades shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.1% of Winpak shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Winpak has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Winpak, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Winpak has a net margin of 12.96% compared to Winpak's net margin of -0.46%. Cascades' return on equity of 10.82% beat Winpak's return on equity.
Cascades has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Winpak has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Winpak pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Cascades pays out -228.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Winpak pays out 3.9% 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. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cascades received 217 more outperform votes than Winpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.09% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote while only 62.01% of users gave Winpak an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cascades had 9 more articles in the media than Winpak. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cascades and 2 mentions for Winpak. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Winpak's score of 0.28 indicating that Winpak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cascades currently has a consensus price target of C$11.83, indicating a potential upside of 25.09%. Winpak has a consensus price target of C$47.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.15%. Given Winpak's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cascades is more favorable than Winpak.
Summary
Winpak beats Cascades on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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