GH vs. TCL.B, DII.B, CKI, KEG.UN, XTC, WPRT, TRZ, PNC.B, PNC.A, and SRV.UN
Should you be buying Gamehost stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gamehost include Transcontinental (TCL.B), Dorel Industries (DII.B), Clarke (CKI), Keg Royalties Income Fund (KEG.UN), Exco Technologies (XTC), Westport Fuel Systems (WPRT), Transat A.T. (TRZ), Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC (PNC.B), Postmedia Network Canada (PNC.A), and SIR Royalty Income Fund (SRV.UN). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.B) and Gamehost (TSE:GH) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Transcontinental has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Gamehost has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Transcontinental has higher revenue and earnings than Gamehost. Gamehost is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transcontinental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gamehost has a net margin of 25.26% compared to Gamehost's net margin of 3.39%. Transcontinental's return on equity of 19.80% beat Gamehost's return on equity.
Gamehost received 31 more outperform votes than Transcontinental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.25% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Gamehost an outperform vote.
12.8% of Gamehost shares are held by institutional investors. 94.0% of Transcontinental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Gamehost shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Gamehost had 2 more articles in the media than Transcontinental. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gamehost and 0 mentions for Transcontinental. Transcontinental's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Gamehost's score of 0.00 indicating that Gamehost is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Gamehost pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Transcontinental pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gamehost pays out 49.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Gamehost beats Transcontinental on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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