CTC vs. ZZZ, GBT, LNF, CCL.A, MRE, GOOS, PBL, CAS, ACQ, and TCL.A
Should you be buying Canadian Tire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Tire include Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), BMTC Group (GBT), Leon's Furniture (LNF), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Martinrea International (MRE), Canada Goose (GOOS), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Cascades (CAS), AutoCanada (ACQ), and Transcontinental (TCL.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) and Canadian Tire (TSE:CTC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Canadian Tire has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Sleep Country Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Tire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Sleep Country Canada's net margin of 1.28%. Canadian Tire's return on equity of 16.85% beat Sleep Country Canada's return on equity.
Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Canadian Tire pays an annual dividend of C$7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Tire pays out 185.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sleep Country Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sleep Country Canada received 297 more outperform votes than Canadian Tire when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.90% of users gave Canadian Tire an outperform vote while only 72.56% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote.
59.3% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Canadian Tire shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.9% of Canadian Tire shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Canadian Tire had 1 more articles in the media than Sleep Country Canada. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Tire and 1 mentions for Sleep Country Canada. Sleep Country Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Canadian Tire's score of 0.00 indicating that Canadian Tire is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sleep Country Canada presently has a consensus target price of C$32.43, indicating a potential upside of 17.75%. Given Canadian Tire's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sleep Country Canada is more favorable than Canadian Tire.
Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Tire has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Canadian Tire on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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