LNF vs. ZZZ, CTC, GBT, NFI, MTY, TOY, TCL.A, PBL, CAS, and MRE
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), NFI Group (NFI), MTY Food Group (MTY), Spin Master (TOY), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Cascades (CAS), and Martinrea International (MRE). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) and Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Sleep Country Canada currently has a consensus target price of C$32.43, indicating a potential upside of 16.19%. Leon's Furniture has a consensus target price of C$23.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.03%. Given Leon's Furniture's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sleep Country Canada is more favorable than Leon's Furniture.
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.
Sleep Country Canada received 411 more outperform votes than Leon's Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.56% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote.
59.3% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.0% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.6% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Leon's Furniture pays out 35.6% 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.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Sleep Country Canada's net margin of 5.66%. Leon's Furniture's return on equity of 16.85% beat Sleep Country Canada's return on equity.
Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leon's Furniture had 1 more articles in the media than Sleep Country Canada. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Leon's Furniture and 0 mentions for Sleep Country Canada. Sleep Country Canada's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Leon's Furniture's score of 0.00 indicating that Leon's Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Leon's Furniture on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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