GFP vs. WEF, GDL, CFF, EVA, WFG, SJ, CFP, IFP, PL, and ADN
Should you be buying GreenFirst Forest Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GreenFirst Forest Products include Western Forest Products (WEF), Goodfellow (GDL), Conifex Timber (CFF), Enviva (EVA), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Stella-Jones (SJ), Canfor (CFP), Interfor (IFP), Pinnacle Renewable Energy (PL), and Acadian Timber (ADN). These companies are all part of the "lumber & wood production" industry.
GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) and Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Western Forest Products had 8 more articles in the media than GreenFirst Forest Products. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Western Forest Products and 2 mentions for GreenFirst Forest Products. GreenFirst Forest Products' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Western Forest Products' score of -0.33 indicating that GreenFirst Forest Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Forest Products has a net margin of -5.96% compared to GreenFirst Forest Products' net margin of -10.40%. Western Forest Products' return on equity of -9.90% beat GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity.
Western Forest Products received 396 more outperform votes than GreenFirst Forest Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.92% of users gave Western Forest Products an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GreenFirst Forest Products an outperform vote.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Forest Products has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Forest Products has a consensus target price of C$0.65, indicating a potential upside of 54.76%. Given Western Forest Products' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Western Forest Products is more favorable than GreenFirst Forest Products.
36.2% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Western Forest Products shares are held by institutional investors. 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Western Forest Products shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GreenFirst Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 216.7%. Western Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. GreenFirst Forest Products pays out -325.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Forest Products pays out -26.3% 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. GreenFirst Forest Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
GreenFirst Forest Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Western Forest Products. Western Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GreenFirst Forest Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Western Forest Products beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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