CAS vs. UFS, ITP, RFP, DSY, GLN, AEZ, WPK, CCL.A, IPLP, and RPI.UN
Should you be buying Cascades stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cascades include Domtar (UFS), Intertape Polymer Group (ITP), Resolute Forest Products (RFP), Destiny Media Technologies (DSY), 14845 (GLN.TO) (GLN), 43844 (AEZ.TO) (AEZ), Winpak (WPK), CCL Industries (CCL.A), IPL Plastics Inc. (IPLP.TO) (IPLP), and Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN).
Cascades vs.
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Domtar (TSE:UFS) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Domtar has a net margin of 2.70% compared to Cascades' net margin of -1.62%. Domtar's return on equity of 4.36% beat Cascades' return on equity.
30.8% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.1% of Domtar shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.8% of Cascades shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Domtar shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cascades presently has a consensus target price of C$11.90, indicating a potential upside of 33.11%. Given Cascades' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cascades is more favorable than Domtar.
In the previous week, Cascades had 20 more articles in the media than Domtar. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Cascades and 0 mentions for Domtar. Domtar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Cascades' score of -0.07 indicating that Domtar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Domtar has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domtar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cascades has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Domtar has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cascades received 285 more outperform votes than Domtar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.32% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote while only 51.82% of users gave Domtar an outperform vote.
Summary
Cascades and Domtar tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:CAS) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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