BU vs. SWP, BR, CRP, KPT, GCL, HLF, SOY, JWEL, MFI, and PBH
Should you be buying Burcon NutraScience stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burcon NutraScience include Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Big Rock Brewery (BR), Ceres Global (CRP), KP Tissue (KPT), Colabor Group (GCL), High Liner Foods (HLF), SunOpta (SOY), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), Maple Leaf Foods (MFI), and Premium Brands (PBH). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TSE:SWP) and Burcon NutraScience (TSE:BU) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
0.4% of Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Burcon NutraScience shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.9% of Burcon NutraScience 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.
Burcon NutraScience has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Burcon NutraScience's net margin of -0.32%. Burcon NutraScience's return on equity of -0.95% beat Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee's return on equity.
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee has higher revenue and earnings than Burcon NutraScience. Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burcon NutraScience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burcon NutraScience has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee had 2 more articles in the media than Burcon NutraScience. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee and 1 mentions for Burcon NutraScience. Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Burcon NutraScience's score of 0.00 indicating that Burcon NutraScience is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Burcon NutraScience received 259 more outperform votes than Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee and Burcon NutraScience tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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