CFF vs. GFP, EVA, WFG, SJ, CFP, IFP, PL, ADN, WEF, and GDL
Should you be buying Conifex Timber stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conifex Timber include GreenFirst Forest Products (GFP), Enviva (EVA), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Stella-Jones (SJ), Canfor (CFP), Interfor (IFP), Pinnacle Renewable Energy (PL), Acadian Timber (ADN), Western Forest Products (WEF), and Goodfellow (GDL). These companies are all part of the "lumber & wood production" industry.
GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) and Conifex Timber (TSE:CFF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conifex Timber has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a net margin of -10.40% compared to GreenFirst Forest Products' net margin of -21.70%. Conifex Timber's return on equity of -22.28% beat GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity.
Conifex Timber received 186 more outperform votes than GreenFirst Forest Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.82% of users gave Conifex Timber an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GreenFirst Forest Products an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Conifex Timber had 5 more articles in the media than GreenFirst Forest Products. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Conifex Timber and 2 mentions for GreenFirst Forest Products. Conifex Timber's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat GreenFirst Forest Products' score of -0.32 indicating that GreenFirst Forest Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Conifex Timber has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GreenFirst Forest Products. GreenFirst Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conifex Timber, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.2% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.1% of Conifex Timber shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Conifex Timber 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.
Conifex Timber has a consensus price target of C$1.13, indicating a potential upside of 181.25%. Given GreenFirst Forest Products' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Conifex Timber is more favorable than GreenFirst Forest Products.
Summary
Conifex Timber beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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