PBL vs. CAS, ZZZ, TCL.A, MRE, CCL.A, CTC, TOY, MTY, GOOS, and ACQ
Should you be buying Pollard Banknote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pollard Banknote include Cascades (CAS), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Martinrea International (MRE), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Canadian Tire (CTC), Spin Master (TOY), MTY Food Group (MTY), Canada Goose (GOOS), and AutoCanada (ACQ). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Pollard Banknote (TSE:PBL) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Pollard Banknote pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Cascades pays out -63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pollard Banknote pays out 17.4% 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.
31.0% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.7% of Pollard Banknote shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Cascades shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 64.3% of Pollard Banknote shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cascades presently has a consensus target price of C$11.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.45%. Pollard Banknote has a consensus target price of C$42.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.73%. Given Pollard Banknote's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cascades is more favorable than Pollard Banknote.
In the previous week, Cascades had 17 more articles in the media than Pollard Banknote. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Cascades and 5 mentions for Pollard Banknote. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Pollard Banknote's score of 0.08 indicating that Pollard Banknote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pollard Banknote has a net margin of 6.04% compared to Pollard Banknote's net margin of -1.64%. Cascades' return on equity of 11.93% beat Pollard Banknote's return on equity.
Pollard Banknote has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pollard Banknote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cascades received 317 more outperform votes than Pollard Banknote when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.18% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave Pollard Banknote an outperform vote.
Cascades has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pollard Banknote has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pollard Banknote beats Cascades on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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