DIV vs. AEF, DE, OIC, SIQ, GTII, BBU.UN, WTE, BDT, CJT, and BBD.A
Should you be buying Diversified Royalty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diversified Royalty include Acasta Enterprises (AEF), Decisive Dividend (DE), Origin Gold Co. (OIC.V) (OIC), SiQ Mountain Industries (SIQ), Green Thumb Industries (GTII), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU.UN), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), Bird Construction (BDT), Cargojet (CJT), and Bombardier (BBD.A). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Diversified Royalty vs. Its Competitors
Acasta Enterprises (TSE:AEF) and Diversified Royalty (TSE:DIV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Diversified Royalty has a consensus price target of C$3.64, indicating a potential upside of 11.58%. Given Diversified Royalty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diversified Royalty is more favorable than Acasta Enterprises.
In the previous week, Diversified Royalty had 9 more articles in the media than Acasta Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Diversified Royalty and 0 mentions for Acasta Enterprises. Diversified Royalty's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Acasta Enterprises' score of 0.00 indicating that Diversified Royalty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Acasta Enterprises pays an annual dividend of C$0.06 per share. Diversified Royalty pays an annual dividend of C$0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Acasta Enterprises pays out -200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diversified Royalty pays out 130.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
14.9% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Diversified Royalty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Diversified Royalty has a net margin of 49.25% compared to Acasta Enterprises' net margin of 0.00%. Diversified Royalty's return on equity of 11.46% beat Acasta Enterprises' return on equity.
Diversified Royalty has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Acasta Enterprises. Acasta Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diversified Royalty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Diversified Royalty beats Acasta Enterprises on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:DIV) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
