ROOT vs. STC, CNC, PIH, KFS, AXV, MXX, ANK, AGO, FAF, and BRO
Should you be buying Roots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roots include Sangoma Technologies (STC), Canada Nickel (CNC), 8002 (PIH.TO) (PIH), Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS.TO) (KFS), Axion Ventures (AXV), MATRRIX Energy Technologies (MXX), Angkor Resources (ANK), Big Tree Carbon (AGO), Fire & Flower (FAF), and Barksdale Resources (BRO). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Roots vs. Its Competitors
Sangoma Technologies (TSE:STC) and Roots (TSE:ROOT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Sangoma Technologies presently has a consensus target price of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 44.65%. Given Sangoma Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sangoma Technologies is more favorable than Roots.
In the previous week, Sangoma Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Roots'average media sentiment score.
Roots received 44 more outperform votes than Sangoma Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.00% of users gave Sangoma Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote.
38.4% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.0% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Roots shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sangoma Technologies has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roots has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Roots has a net margin of 1.11% compared to Sangoma Technologies' net margin of -2.81%. Roots' return on equity of 1.58% beat Sangoma Technologies' return on equity.
Roots has higher revenue and earnings than Sangoma Technologies. Sangoma Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Roots beats Sangoma Technologies on 10 of the 16 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:ROOT) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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