PET vs. CPG, CCL.A, CONA, CBR, AOT, GLB, IGG, FTP, LVN, and SMO
Should you be buying Pet Valu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pet Valu include Crescent Point Energy (CPG), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Cona Resources (CONA), Cabral Gold (CBR), Ascot Resources (AOT), Goldbank Mining (GLB), Innova Gaming Group (IGG), Fortress Paper (FTP), Levon Resources (LVN), and Sonoro Gold Corp. (SMO.V) (SMO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Pet Valu vs. Its Competitors
Crescent Point Energy (TSE:CPG) and Pet Valu (TSE:PET) are both mid-cap personal services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Crescent Point Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.46 per share. Pet Valu pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Crescent Point Energy pays out 93.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pet Valu pays out 36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pet Valu is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Pet Valu had 1 more articles in the media than Crescent Point Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pet Valu and 0 mentions for Crescent Point Energy. Pet Valu's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Crescent Point Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Pet Valu is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pet Valu has a consensus target price of C$34.33, indicating a potential upside of 2.37%. Given Pet Valu's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pet Valu is more favorable than Crescent Point Energy.
Crescent Point Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Pet Valu. Crescent Point Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pet Valu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.5% of Crescent Point Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.2% of Pet Valu shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Crescent Point Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Pet Valu shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Pet Valu has a net margin of 8.02% compared to Crescent Point Energy's net margin of -1.65%. Pet Valu's return on equity of 100.39% beat Crescent Point Energy's return on equity.
Crescent Point Energy has a beta of 2.84, meaning that its share price is 184% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pet Valu has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pet Valu beats Crescent Point Energy on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:PET) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
