ATD vs. CTC, CTC.A, PET, LNF, ZZZ, GBT, CLIQ, IDG, RUM, and FTI
Should you be buying Alimentation Couche-Tard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alimentation Couche-Tard include Canadian Tire (CTC), Canadian Tire (CTC.A), Pet Valu (PET), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), BMTC Group (GBT), Alcanna (CLIQ), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Rocky Mountain Liquor (RUM), and FTI Foodtech International (FTI). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Alimentation Couche-Tard vs.
Canadian Tire (TSE:CTC) and Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSE:ATD) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
12.3% of Canadian Tire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Alimentation Couche-Tard shares are held by institutional investors. 81.9% of Canadian Tire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.7% of Alimentation Couche-Tard shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Canadian Tire presently has a consensus price target of C$140.00, indicating a potential downside of 36.94%. Alimentation Couche-Tard has a consensus price target of C$86.33, indicating a potential upside of 19.97%. Given Alimentation Couche-Tard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alimentation Couche-Tard is more favorable than Canadian Tire.
Canadian Tire has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alimentation Couche-Tard has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canadian Tire had 7 more articles in the media than Alimentation Couche-Tard. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Canadian Tire and 3 mentions for Alimentation Couche-Tard. Alimentation Couche-Tard's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Canadian Tire's score of -0.29 indicating that Alimentation Couche-Tard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Tire received 126 more outperform votes than Alimentation Couche-Tard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.21% of users gave Canadian Tire an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Alimentation Couche-Tard an outperform vote.
Canadian Tire pays an annual dividend of C$7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Alimentation Couche-Tard pays an annual dividend of C$0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Canadian Tire pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alimentation Couche-Tard pays out 18.3% 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.
Alimentation Couche-Tard has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Tire. Canadian Tire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alimentation Couche-Tard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canadian Tire has a net margin of 3.98% compared to Alimentation Couche-Tard's net margin of 3.53%. Alimentation Couche-Tard's return on equity of 18.96% beat Canadian Tire's return on equity.
Summary
Alimentation Couche-Tard beats Canadian Tire on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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