WJX vs. DBM, RUS, BBD.A, HRX, AND, CGY, ALC, GDI, BDI, and BDT
Should you be buying Wajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wajax include Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Russel Metals (RUS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), Calian Group (CGY), Algoma Central (ALC), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), and Bird Construction (BDT). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM) and Wajax (TSE:WJX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Doman Building Materials Group received 126 more outperform votes than Wajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 50.87% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wajax has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.76% compared to Wajax's net margin of 3.04%. Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity of 17.12% beat Wajax's return on equity.
Doman Building Materials Group currently has a consensus target price of C$10.29, indicating a potential upside of 29.29%. Wajax has a consensus target price of C$34.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.41%. Given Wajax's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Wajax.
Wajax has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Doman Building Materials Group. Wajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Doman Building Materials Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
4.6% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Wajax shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Wajax shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Wajax had 6 more articles in the media than Doman Building Materials Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Wajax and 2 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Wajax's score of 0.20 indicating that Wajax is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wajax pays out 38.5% 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.
Summary
Wajax beats Doman Building Materials Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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