CCL.A vs. CAS, RPI.UN, WPK, CTC, MRE, PBL, ZZZ, GOOS, TCL.A, and TOY
Should you be buying CCL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CCL Industries include Cascades (CAS), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Winpak (WPK), Canadian Tire (CTC), Martinrea International (MRE), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canada Goose (GOOS), Transcontinental (TCL.A), and Spin Master (TOY). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
CCL Industries (TSE:CCL.A) and Cascades (TSE:CAS) 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, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
1.5% of CCL Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.3% of Cascades shares are held by institutional investors. 95.4% of CCL Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of Cascades shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cascades has a consensus target price of C$11.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.86%. Given Cascades' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cascades is more favorable than CCL Industries.
CCL Industries has a net margin of 7.97% compared to Cascades' net margin of -1.64%. CCL Industries' return on equity of 11.93% beat Cascades' return on equity.
Cascades received 372 more outperform votes than CCL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.07% of users gave CCL Industries an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote.
CCL Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CCL Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CCL Industries pays an annual dividend of C$1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. CCL Industries pays out 39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cascades pays out -63.2% 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. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Cascades had 10 more articles in the media than CCL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Cascades and 3 mentions for CCL Industries. CCL Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Cascades' score of -0.03 indicating that CCL Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CCL Industries has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cascades has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CCL Industries beats Cascades on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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