LIF vs. MEG, QBR.B, SJ, NVEI, QBR.A, EFX, TIXT, CHR, FC, and MAX
Should you be buying Labrador Iron Ore Royalty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty include MEG Energy (MEG), Quebecor (QBR.B), Stella-Jones (SJ), Nuvei (NVEI), Quebecor (QBR.A), Enerflex (EFX), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Chorus Aviation (CHR), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), and Midas Gold Corp. (MAX.TO) (MAX). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty vs.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty (TSE:LIF) and MEG Energy (TSE:MEG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty has a net margin of 94.67% compared to MEG Energy's net margin of 9.04%. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty's return on equity of 29.05% beat MEG Energy's return on equity.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty currently has a consensus price target of C$33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.50%. MEG Energy has a consensus price target of C$30.35, suggesting a potential upside of 23.68%. Given MEG Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MEG Energy is more favorable than Labrador Iron Ore Royalty.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MEG Energy has a beta of 2.89, indicating that its stock price is 189% more volatile than the S&P 500.
21.6% of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.4% of MEG Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Labrador Iron Ore Royalty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of MEG Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MEG Energy received 101 more outperform votes than Labrador Iron Ore Royalty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.09% of users gave MEG Energy an outperform vote while only 51.88% of users gave Labrador Iron Ore Royalty an outperform vote.
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty pays an annual dividend of C$2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. MEG Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MEG Energy pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, MEG Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Labrador Iron Ore Royalty. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for MEG Energy and 0 mentions for Labrador Iron Ore Royalty. MEG Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Labrador Iron Ore Royalty's score of 0.00 indicating that MEG Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MEG Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Labrador Iron Ore Royalty. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MEG Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MEG Energy beats Labrador Iron Ore Royalty on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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