IFA vs. UNI, DII.A, FOOD, ICE, TVA.B, IDG, ROOT, CJR.B, SXP, and SRV.UN
Should you be buying iFabric stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iFabric include Unisync (UNI), Dorel Industries (DII.A), Goodfood Market (FOOD), Canlan Ice Sports (ICE), TVA Group (TVA.B), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Roots (ROOT), Corus Entertainment (CJR.B), Supremex (SXP), and SIR Royalty Income Fund (SRV.UN). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Unisync (TSE:UNI) and iFabric (TSE:IFA) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
iFabric received 19 more outperform votes than Unisync when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave iFabric an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Unisync an outperform vote.
iFabric has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unisync. Unisync is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iFabric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iFabric has a net margin of -7.42% compared to iFabric's net margin of -10.83%. Unisync's return on equity of 2.57% beat iFabric's return on equity.
8.2% of Unisync shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of iFabric shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.7% of Unisync shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.3% of iFabric shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Unisync has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iFabric has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unisync had 2 more articles in the media than iFabric. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Unisync and 1 mentions for iFabric. iFabric's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Unisync's score of 0.39 indicating that Unisync is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
iFabric beats Unisync on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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