LNF vs. ZZZ, CTC, GBT, CLIQ, IDG, RUM, FTI, LXR, BKS, and GPC
Should you be buying Leon's Furniture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leon's Furniture include Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canadian Tire (CTC), BMTC Group (GBT), Alcanna (CLIQ), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Rocky Mountain Liquor (RUM), FTI Foodtech International (FTI), LXRandCo (LXR), Berkley Renewables (BKS), and Genuine Parts (GPC). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) and Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Sleep Country Canada had 25 more articles in the media than Leon's Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sleep Country Canada and 4 mentions for Leon's Furniture. Leon's Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Sleep Country Canada's score of -0.17 indicating that Leon's Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Leon's Furniture currently has a consensus target price of C$24.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.42%. Sleep Country Canada has a consensus target price of C$33.79, indicating a potential downside of 3.52%. Given Leon's Furniture's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Leon's Furniture is more favorable than Sleep Country Canada.
Sleep Country Canada received 412 more outperform votes than Leon's Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.57% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote while only 59.87% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote.
Leon's Furniture has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Leon's Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sleep Country Canada, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.
5.8% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.0% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by institutional investors. 69.5% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Leon's Furniture pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sleep Country Canada pays out 48.0% 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. Leon's Furniture is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.31% compared to Leon's Furniture's net margin of 5.78%. Sleep Country Canada's return on equity of 15.69% beat Leon's Furniture's return on equity.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Leon's Furniture on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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