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High Liner Foods (HLF) Competitors

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C$17.98 -0.02 (-0.11%)
As of 04:00 PM Eastern

HLF vs. JWEL, SOY, CLR, BABY, TPK, SWP, BU, JTR, MYLK, and VPI

Should you be buying High Liner Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of High Liner Foods include Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), SunOpta (SOY), Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO) (CLR), Else Nutrition (BABY), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (TPK), Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee (SWP), Burcon NutraScience (BU), GreenSpace Brands (JTR), Planting Hope (MYLK), and Vitality Products (VPI). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods" industry.

High Liner Foods vs.

High Liner Foods (TSE:HLF) and Jamieson Wellness (TSE:JWEL) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

High Liner Foods pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Jamieson Wellness pays an annual dividend of C$0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. High Liner Foods pays out 21.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jamieson Wellness pays out 88.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. High Liner Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

18.1% of High Liner Foods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.6% of Jamieson Wellness shares are held by institutional investors. 44.3% of High Liner Foods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Jamieson Wellness shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

High Liner Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Jamieson Wellness. High Liner Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jamieson Wellness, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
High Liner FoodsC$660.88M0.57C$41.70MC$2.826.38
Jamieson WellnessC$715.02M2.05C$39.83MC$0.9536.84

High Liner Foods currently has a consensus target price of C$18.70, indicating a potential upside of 4.00%. Jamieson Wellness has a consensus target price of C$41.65, indicating a potential upside of 18.80%. Given Jamieson Wellness' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Jamieson Wellness is more favorable than High Liner Foods.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
High Liner Foods
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Jamieson Wellness
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

High Liner Foods has a net margin of 6.31% compared to Jamieson Wellness' net margin of 5.57%. High Liner Foods' return on equity of 15.27% beat Jamieson Wellness' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
High Liner Foods6.31% 15.27% 5.30%
Jamieson Wellness 5.57%8.99%4.73%

High Liner Foods received 9 more outperform votes than Jamieson Wellness when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.20% of users gave Jamieson Wellness an outperform vote while only 50.72% of users gave High Liner Foods an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
High Liner FoodsOutperform Votes
246
50.72%
Underperform Votes
239
49.28%
Jamieson WellnessOutperform Votes
237
63.20%
Underperform Votes
138
36.80%

In the previous week, High Liner Foods had 12 more articles in the media than Jamieson Wellness. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for High Liner Foods and 1 mentions for Jamieson Wellness. Jamieson Wellness' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat High Liner Foods' score of 0.70 indicating that Jamieson Wellness is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
High Liner Foods
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Jamieson Wellness
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

High Liner Foods has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jamieson Wellness has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

High Liner Foods beats Jamieson Wellness on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HLF vs. The Competition

MetricHigh Liner FoodsPackaged Foods IndustryDefensive SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$376.84MC$2.19BC$6.98BC$5.94B
Dividend Yield3.89%2.63%3.16%6.32%
P/E Ratio6.3812.1911.9829.95
Price / Sales0.5741.9679.71752.53
Price / Cash138.61123.14147.7783.71
Price / Book1.343.152.973.96
Net IncomeC$41.70MC$2.63BC$1.01BC$301.32M
7 Day Performance2.74%1.50%1.75%1.35%
1 Month Performance7.92%54.37%19.77%8.57%
1 Year Performance35.80%62.19%64.22%14.85%

High Liner Foods Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HLF
High Liner Foods
1.9348 of 5 stars
C$17.98
-0.1%
C$18.70
+4.0%
+37.2%C$376.84MC$660.88M6.38N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Revision
JWEL
Jamieson Wellness
1.4566 of 5 stars
C$33.39
-1.5%
C$41.65
+24.7%
+37.1%C$1.40BC$715.02M35.08240Gap Up
SOY
SunOpta
N/AC$8.90
-1.5%
N/A+15.3%C$742.00MC$464.89M-40.671,450Gap Down
CLR
Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated (CLR.TO)
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$536.82MC$507.11M86.741,845
BABY
Else Nutrition
N/AC$1.17
flat
N/A+0.0%C$121.91MC$4.02M-6.161,729
TPK
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$49.84MC$86.49M18.03N/A
SWP
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee
N/AC$3.18
+2.9%
N/A-8.7%C$29.91MC$163.19M137.8583
BU
Burcon NutraScience
N/AC$0.11
+5.0%
N/A-61.5%C$25.67MC$724,399.27-1.8120Gap Down
JTR
GreenSpace Brands
N/AC$0.01
-50.0%
N/A+0.0%C$2.55MC$15.35M-0.2577Gap Down
High Trading Volume
MYLK
Planting Hope
N/AC$0.02
+50.0%
N/A-80.0%C$1.74MC$7.41M-0.11N/AGap Up
VPI
Vitality Products
N/AC$0.03
+20.0%
N/A-20.0%C$1.24MC$882,997.00-2.00N/AGap Up

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This page (TSE:HLF) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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