MRU vs. ATD.B, ATD.A, L, WN, EMP.A, NWC, DOL, SAP, PRMW, and PBH
Should you be buying Metro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metro include Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.B), Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.A), Loblaw Companies (L), George Weston (WN), Empire (EMP.A), North West (NWC), Dollarama (DOL), Saputo (SAP), Primo Water (PRMW), and Premium Brands (PBH). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Metro (TSE:MRU) and Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSE:ATD.B) are both large-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.
Metro pays an annual dividend of C$1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Alimentation Couche-Tard pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share. Metro pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alimentation Couche-Tard pays out 8.9% 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.
Metro presently has a consensus price target of C$79.86, suggesting a potential downside of 2.79%. Alimentation Couche-Tard has a consensus price target of C$84.50, suggesting a potential upside of ∞. Given Alimentation Couche-Tard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alimentation Couche-Tard is more favorable than Metro.
Alimentation Couche-Tard has higher revenue and earnings than Metro. Alimentation Couche-Tard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
45.1% of Metro shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Metro shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alimentation Couche-Tard received 63 more outperform votes than Metro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.01% of users gave Alimentation Couche-Tard an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave Metro an outperform vote.
Metro has a net margin of 4.64% compared to Alimentation Couche-Tard's net margin of 0.00%. Metro's return on equity of 14.55% beat Alimentation Couche-Tard's return on equity.
In the previous week, Metro had 8 more articles in the media than Alimentation Couche-Tard. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Metro and 1 mentions for Alimentation Couche-Tard. Metro's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Alimentation Couche-Tard's score of -0.54 indicating that Metro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Metro beats Alimentation Couche-Tard on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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