PCRFY vs. RCI, TTWO, RBLX, TCOM, UNICY, FOXA, ONON, FWONK, MTN, and FOX
Should you be buying Panasonic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Panasonic include Rogers Communications (RCI), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Unicharm (UNICY), FOX (FOXA), ON (ONON), Formula One Group (FWONK), Vail Resorts (MTN), and FOX (FOX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Panasonic vs.
Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) and Panasonic (OTCMKTS:PCRFY) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Rogers Communications currently has a consensus price target of $74.31, indicating a potential upside of 62.63%. Given Rogers Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rogers Communications is more favorable than Panasonic.
Panasonic has higher revenue and earnings than Rogers Communications. Panasonic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Rogers Communications had 1 more articles in the media than Panasonic. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Rogers Communications and 0 mentions for Panasonic. Panasonic's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Rogers Communications' score of 0.00 indicating that Panasonic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rogers Communications has a net margin of 10.90% compared to Panasonic's net margin of 2.73%. Rogers Communications' return on equity of 18.14% beat Panasonic's return on equity.
Rogers Communications received 226 more outperform votes than Panasonic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.49% of users gave Panasonic an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote.
Rogers Communications pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Panasonic pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Rogers Communications pays out 59.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Panasonic pays out 21.9% 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.
Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Panasonic has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Panasonic shares are held by institutional investors. 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Panasonic shares are held 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.
Summary
Rogers Communications beats Panasonic on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PCRFY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of OTCMKTS and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
PCRFY vs. The Competition
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