HAL vs. AKT.A
Should you be buying Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common include AKITA Drilling (AKT.A). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
AKITA Drilling (TSE:AKT.A) and Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common (TSE:HAL) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common had 1 more articles in the media than AKITA Drilling. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common and 1 mentions for AKITA Drilling. AKITA Drilling's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common's score of 0.67 indicating that Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AKITA Drilling presently has a consensus target price of C$2.80, suggesting a potential upside of 87.92%. Given Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AKITA Drilling is more favorable than Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common.
AKITA Drilling has a net margin of 8.17% compared to AKITA Drilling's net margin of 0.00%. Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common's return on equity of 12.53% beat AKITA Drilling's return on equity.
AKITA Drilling pays an annual dividend of C$0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.8%. Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. AKITA Drilling pays out 47.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
AKITA Drilling has higher revenue and earnings than Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common.
22.0% of AKITA Drilling shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of AKITA Drilling shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common received 101 more outperform votes than AKITA Drilling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.03% of users gave Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common an outperform vote while only 53.05% of users gave AKITA Drilling an outperform vote.
Summary
AKITA Drilling beats Horizons Active Cdn Dividend ETF Common on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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