ACQ vs. EINC, LNF, CARA, ZZZ, TCL.A, TOY, MTY, CAS, PLC, and MRE
Should you be buying AutoCanada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AutoCanada include E Automotive (EINC), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Cara Operations (CARA), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Spin Master (TOY), MTY Food Group (MTY), Cascades (CAS), Park Lawn (PLC), and Martinrea International (MRE). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
E Automotive (TSE:EINC) and AutoCanada (TSE:ACQ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
0.1% of E Automotive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.9% of AutoCanada shares are held by institutional investors. 89.2% of E Automotive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of AutoCanada shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AutoCanada has a consensus target price of C$23.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.74%.
AutoCanada received 393 more outperform votes than E Automotive when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.13% of users gave AutoCanada an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave E Automotive an outperform vote.
AutoCanada has higher revenue and earnings than E Automotive. E Automotive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AutoCanada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AutoCanada has a net margin of 0.64% compared to AutoCanada's net margin of -40.97%. E Automotive's return on equity of 8.15% beat AutoCanada's return on equity.
In the previous week, E Automotive had 1 more articles in the media than AutoCanada. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for E Automotive and 1 mentions for AutoCanada. E Automotive's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat AutoCanada's score of 0.02 indicating that AutoCanada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AutoCanada beats E Automotive on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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