CFX vs. NB, GEO, ARA, NEXT, WM, TMQ, G, FURY, TSL, and SLR
Should you be buying Canfor Pulp Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canfor Pulp Products include NioCorp Developments (NB), Geodrill (GEO), Aclara Resources (ARA), NextSource Materials (NEXT), Wallbridge Mining (WM), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Augusta Gold (G), Fury Gold Mines (FURY), Tree Island Steel (TSL), and Solitario Resources (SLR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
NioCorp Developments (TSE:NB) and Canfor Pulp Products (TSE:CFX) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
5.0% of NioCorp Developments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Canfor Pulp Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of NioCorp Developments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.0% of Canfor Pulp Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Canfor Pulp Products has a consensus target price of C$1.95, indicating a potential upside of 30.00%. Given NioCorp Developments' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Canfor Pulp Products is more favorable than NioCorp Developments.
Canfor Pulp Products received 244 more outperform votes than NioCorp Developments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.10% of users gave NioCorp Developments an outperform vote while only 63.06% of users gave Canfor Pulp Products an outperform vote.
NioCorp Developments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Canfor Pulp Products. NioCorp Developments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canfor Pulp Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NioCorp Developments has a net margin of 0.00% compared to NioCorp Developments' net margin of -10.98%. NioCorp Developments' return on equity of -25.14% beat Canfor Pulp Products' return on equity.
In the previous week, Canfor Pulp Products had 1 more articles in the media than NioCorp Developments. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Canfor Pulp Products and 2 mentions for NioCorp Developments. Canfor Pulp Products' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat NioCorp Developments' score of -0.65 indicating that NioCorp Developments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NioCorp Developments has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canfor Pulp Products has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Canfor Pulp Products beats NioCorp Developments on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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