EFN vs. SVI, SNC, AC, TIH, FTT, STN, CAE, ATA, BBD.B, and RUS
Should you be buying Element Fleet Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Element Fleet Management include StorageVault Canada (SVI), SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC), Air Canada (AC), Toromont Industries (TIH), Finning International (FTT), Stantec (STN), CAE (CAE), ATS Automation Tooling Systems (ATA), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), and Russel Metals (RUS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
StorageVault Canada (CVE:SVI) and Element Fleet Management (TSE:EFN) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
55.4% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by 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.
Element Fleet Management has higher revenue and earnings than StorageVault Canada. StorageVault Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Fleet Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
StorageVault Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Element Fleet Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. StorageVault Canada pays out -12.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Element Fleet Management pays out 39.2% 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.
Element Fleet Management has a net margin of 23.75% compared to Element Fleet Management's net margin of 0.00%. StorageVault Canada's return on equity of 11.76% beat Element Fleet Management's return on equity.
Element Fleet Management received 433 more outperform votes than StorageVault Canada when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.76% of users gave Element Fleet Management an outperform vote while only 65.47% of users gave StorageVault Canada an outperform vote.
In the previous week, StorageVault Canada and StorageVault Canada both had 1 articles in the media. StorageVault Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Element Fleet Management's score of 0.00 indicating that Element Fleet Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
StorageVault Canada currently has a consensus price target of C$6.39, indicating a potential downside of 0.42%. Element Fleet Management has a consensus price target of C$25.38, indicating a potential upside of 32.09%. Given StorageVault Canada's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Element Fleet Management is more favorable than StorageVault Canada.
Summary
Element Fleet Management beats StorageVault Canada on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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