CRP vs. GCL, KPT, ADW.A, BU, SWP, CSW.A, CNT, BR, GLG, and HLF
Should you be buying Ceres Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceres Global include Colabor Group (GCL), KP Tissue (KPT), Andrew Peller (ADW.A), Burcon NutraScience (BU), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Corby Spirit and Wine (CSW.A), Century Global Commodities (CNT), Big Rock Brewery (BR), GLG Life Tech (GLG), and High Liner Foods (HLF). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Ceres Global (TSE:CRP) and Colabor Group (TSE:GCL) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Colabor Group has a net margin of 0.85% compared to Ceres Global's net margin of 0.59%. Colabor Group's return on equity of 5.72% beat Ceres Global's return on equity.
Ceres Global has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colabor Group has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.7% of Ceres Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of Colabor Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Ceres Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of Colabor Group shares are held 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.
Colabor Group received 229 more outperform votes than Ceres Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.86% of users gave Colabor Group an outperform vote while only 63.03% of users gave Ceres Global an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Colabor Group had 4 more articles in the media than Ceres Global. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Colabor Group and 1 mentions for Ceres Global. Ceres Global's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Colabor Group's score of -0.21 indicating that Ceres Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Colabor Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ceres Global. Ceres Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Colabor Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Colabor Group beats Ceres Global on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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