GDL vs. GFP, WEF, ADN, NB, S, LGD, TMQ, FDY, ERD, and USA
Should you be buying Goodfellow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Goodfellow include GreenFirst Forest Products (GFP), Western Forest Products (WEF), Acadian Timber (ADN), NioCorp Developments (NB), Sherritt International (S), Liberty Gold (LGD), Trilogy Metals (TMQ), Faraday Copper (FDY), Erdene Resource Development (ERD), and Americas Silver (USA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Goodfellow (TSE:GDL) and GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Goodfellow pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. GreenFirst Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 150.0%. Goodfellow pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GreenFirst Forest Products pays out -288.9% 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. GreenFirst Forest Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
10.7% of Goodfellow shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.2% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.9% of Goodfellow shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, GreenFirst Forest Products had 6 more articles in the media than Goodfellow. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for GreenFirst Forest Products and 0 mentions for Goodfellow. Goodfellow's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat GreenFirst Forest Products' score of -0.41 indicating that Goodfellow is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Goodfellow has higher revenue and earnings than GreenFirst Forest Products. GreenFirst Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goodfellow, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Goodfellow has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Goodfellow has a net margin of 2.89% compared to GreenFirst Forest Products' net margin of -11.48%. Goodfellow's return on equity of 7.94% beat GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity.
Goodfellow received 77 more outperform votes than GreenFirst Forest Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.03% of users gave Goodfellow an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GreenFirst Forest Products an outperform vote.
Summary
Goodfellow beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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