RCH vs. WPK, LNF, ATZ, NFI, MTY, TOY, TCL.A, DOO, CAS, and PBL
Should you be buying Richelieu Hardware stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Richelieu Hardware include Winpak (WPK), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Aritzia (ATZ), NFI Group (NFI), MTY Food Group (MTY), Spin Master (TOY), Transcontinental (TCL.A), BRP (DOO), Cascades (CAS), and Pollard Banknote (PBL). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Winpak (TSE:WPK) and Richelieu Hardware (TSE:RCH) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Richelieu Hardware received 42 more outperform votes than Winpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.33% of users gave Richelieu Hardware an outperform vote while only 62.01% of users gave Winpak an outperform vote.
Winpak has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Richelieu Hardware. Winpak is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Richelieu Hardware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Winpak has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richelieu Hardware has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
28.1% of Winpak shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Richelieu Hardware shares are held by institutional investors. 52.7% of Winpak shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Richelieu Hardware shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Winpak has a net margin of 12.98% compared to Winpak's net margin of 6.24%. Winpak's return on equity of 13.18% beat Richelieu Hardware's return on equity.
Winpak currently has a consensus price target of C$47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.96%. Richelieu Hardware has a consensus price target of C$45.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.52%. Given Winpak's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Richelieu Hardware is more favorable than Winpak.
In the previous week, Winpak had 5 more articles in the media than Richelieu Hardware. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Winpak and 2 mentions for Richelieu Hardware. Richelieu Hardware's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Winpak's score of 0.15 indicating that Winpak is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Winpak pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Richelieu Hardware pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Winpak pays out 3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richelieu Hardware pays out 30.3% 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.
Summary
Winpak and Richelieu Hardware tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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