SXP vs. RPI.UN, CJR.B, ROOT, SRV.UN, PNC.A, IDG, PNC.B, TRZ, WPRT, and ICE
Should you be buying Supremex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Supremex include Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Corus Entertainment (CJR.B), Roots (ROOT), SIR Royalty Income Fund (SRV.UN), Postmedia Network Canada (PNC.A), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC (PNC.B), Transat A.T. (TRZ), Westport Fuel Systems (WPRT), and Canlan Ice Sports (ICE). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Supremex (TSE:SXP) and Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSE:RPI.UN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Supremex received 59 more outperform votes than Richards Packaging Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.53% of users gave Supremex an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave Richards Packaging Income Fund an outperform vote.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Supremex. Supremex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Richards Packaging Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Supremex has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richards Packaging Income Fund has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
3.1% of Supremex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.3% of Supremex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.5% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by company 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.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has a net margin of 9.13% compared to Supremex's net margin of 5.74%. Richards Packaging Income Fund's return on equity of 22.77% beat Supremex's return on equity.
Supremex currently has a consensus price target of C$5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.88%. Given Supremex's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Supremex is more favorable than Richards Packaging Income Fund.
In the previous week, Supremex had 1 more articles in the media than Richards Packaging Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Supremex and 1 mentions for Richards Packaging Income Fund. Richards Packaging Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Supremex's score of 0.00 indicating that Richards Packaging Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Supremex pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Supremex pays out 23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays out 42.3% 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. Supremex is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Richards Packaging Income Fund beats Supremex on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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