CJR.B vs. RAY.A, SRV.UN, SXP, ROOT, PNC.A, PNC.B, TRZ, WPRT, IDG, and ICE
Should you be buying Corus Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corus Entertainment include Stingray Group (RAY.A), SIR Royalty Income Fund (SRV.UN), Supremex (SXP), Roots (ROOT), Postmedia Network Canada (PNC.A), Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC (PNC.B), Transat A.T. (TRZ), Westport Fuel Systems (WPRT), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), and Canlan Ice Sports (ICE). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Stingray Group (TSE:RAY.A) and Corus Entertainment (TSE:CJR.B) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
24.4% of Stingray Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.7% of Corus Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 23.0% of Stingray Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Corus Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Stingray Group currently has a consensus price target of C$9.17, indicating a potential upside of 24.72%. Corus Entertainment has a consensus price target of C$0.94, indicating a potential upside of 83.82%. Given Stingray Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Corus Entertainment is more favorable than Stingray Group.
Stingray Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Corus Entertainment pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.5%. Stingray Group pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corus Entertainment pays out -5.6% 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. Corus Entertainment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Stingray Group has a net margin of 10.87% compared to Stingray Group's net margin of -29.48%. Corus Entertainment's return on equity of 12.40% beat Stingray Group's return on equity.
Stingray Group has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corus Entertainment has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Corus Entertainment had 1 more articles in the media than Stingray Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Corus Entertainment and 1 mentions for Stingray Group. Stingray Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Corus Entertainment's score of 0.00 indicating that Corus Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stingray Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Corus Entertainment. Corus Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stingray Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Corus Entertainment received 166 more outperform votes than Stingray Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.97% of users gave Stingray Group an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave Corus Entertainment an outperform vote.
Summary
Stingray Group beats Corus Entertainment on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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