EFX vs. SJ, NVEI, LIF, TIXT, NEO, CHR, FC, MAX, PMTS, and TGL
Should you be buying Enerflex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerflex include Stella-Jones (SJ), Nuvei (NVEI), Labrador Iron Ore Royalty (LIF), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Neo Performance Materials (NEO), Chorus Aviation (CHR), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Midas Gold Corp. (MAX.TO) (MAX), CPI Card Group (PMTS), and TransGlobe Energy (TGL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Enerflex vs. Its Competitors
Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) and Enerflex (TSE:EFX) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Stella-Jones has a beta of 0.00388, suggesting that its share price is 100% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerflex has a beta of 2.387468, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stella-Jones pays an annual dividend of C$1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Enerflex pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Stella-Jones pays out 19.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerflex pays out 9.5% 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.
Stella-Jones currently has a consensus target price of C$84.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.05%. Enerflex has a consensus target price of C$16.88, indicating a potential upside of 14.02%. Given Enerflex's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Enerflex is more favorable than Stella-Jones.
In the previous week, Enerflex had 1 more articles in the media than Stella-Jones. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Enerflex and 1 mentions for Stella-Jones. Enerflex's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Stella-Jones' score of 0.59 indicating that Enerflex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stella-Jones has higher revenue and earnings than Enerflex. Stella-Jones is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enerflex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stella-Jones has a net margin of 9.43% compared to Enerflex's net margin of -3.72%. Stella-Jones' return on equity of 18.36% beat Enerflex's return on equity.
50.7% of Stella-Jones shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of Enerflex shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Stella-Jones shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Enerflex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Stella-Jones beats Enerflex on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (TSE:EFX) was last updated on 9/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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