DNTL vs. SIA, WELL, EXE, WEED, CRON, GUD, ACB, KSI, FRX, and VHI
Should you be buying dentalcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of dentalcorp include Sienna Senior Living (SIA), WELL Health Technologies (WELL), Extendicare (EXE), Canopy Growth (WEED), Cronos Group (CRON), Knight Therapeutics (GUD), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), kneat.com (KSI), Fennec Pharmaceuticals (FRX), and Vitalhub (VHI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Sienna Senior Living (TSE:SIA) and dentalcorp (TSE:DNTL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Sienna Senior Living has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, dentalcorp has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sienna Senior Living currently has a consensus price target of C$14.93, suggesting a potential upside of 0.53%. dentalcorp has a consensus price target of C$10.48, suggesting a potential upside of 70.88%. Given Sienna Senior Living's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe dentalcorp is more favorable than Sienna Senior Living.
Sienna Senior Living has higher earnings, but lower revenue than dentalcorp. dentalcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sienna Senior Living, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.4% of Sienna Senior Living shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of dentalcorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Sienna Senior Living shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of dentalcorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sienna Senior Living received 201 more outperform votes than dentalcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.41% of users gave dentalcorp an outperform vote while only 52.67% of users gave Sienna Senior Living an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sienna Senior Living had 3 more articles in the media than dentalcorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sienna Senior Living and 6 mentions for dentalcorp. dentalcorp's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Sienna Senior Living's score of -0.64 indicating that Sienna Senior Living is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sienna Senior Living has a net margin of 3.29% compared to Sienna Senior Living's net margin of -6.00%. dentalcorp's return on equity of 6.83% beat Sienna Senior Living's return on equity.
Summary
Sienna Senior Living beats dentalcorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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