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Roots (ROOT) Competitors

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C$3.07 -0.01 (-0.32%)
As of 07/4/2025 03:20 PM Eastern

ROOT vs. STC, CNC, PIH, KFS, AXV, MXX, ANK, AGO, BRO, and FAF

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), Barksdale Resources (BRO), and Fire & Flower (FAF). 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 insurance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sangoma Technologies-2.81% -2.61% -0.16%
Roots 1.11%1.58%2.29%

Sangoma Technologies has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roots has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Sangoma Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Roots'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Sangoma Technologies Neutral
Roots Neutral

Sangoma Technologies presently has a consensus price target of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 31.58%. Roots has a consensus price target of C$3.75, suggesting a potential upside of 22.15%. Given Sangoma Technologies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sangoma Technologies is more favorable than Roots.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Sangoma Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Roots
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sangoma TechnologiesC$174.58M1.20-C$4.90M-C$0.29-30.59
RootsC$261.62M0.47C$2.89MC$0.0742.91

Summary

Roots beats Sangoma Technologies on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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ROOT vs. The Competition

MetricRootsApparel Retail IndustryCyclical SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$124.17MC$5.61BC$3.34BC$6.19B
Dividend YieldN/A3.04%3.52%6.72%
P/E Ratio42.9163.2471.3650.85
Price / Sales0.4765.6371.001,194.54
Price / Cash14.2227.2831.1683.29
Price / Book0.694.553.764.69
Net IncomeC$2.89MC$256.81MC$262.42MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance1.32%4.35%0.64%2.28%
1 Month PerformanceN/A4.47%2.62%4.71%
1 Year Performance45.50%28.36%2,642.50%26.90%

Roots Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ROOT
Roots
1.3187 of 5 stars
C$3.07
-0.3%
C$3.75
+22.1%
+50.5%C$124.17MC$261.62M42.91760
STC
Sangoma Technologies
N/AC$7.80
-2.1%
C$11.50
+47.4%
+119.0%C$187.15MC$174.58M-27.301,342
CNC
Canada Nickel
N/AC$0.87
flat
N/A-28.2%C$157.35MN/A-17.7274,300High Trading Volume
PIH
8002 (PIH.TO)
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$127.03MN/A0.009
KFS
Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS.TO)
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$61.55MC$53.38M-3.00280
AXV
Axion Ventures
N/AC$0.20
-9.1%
N/A+0.0%C$51.18MC$4.91M-5.002,080
MXX
MATRRIX Energy Technologies
N/AC$0.31
+3.3%
N/A+0.0%C$40.80MC$23.15M-16.32122
ANK
Angkor Resources
N/AC$0.20
+5.4%
N/A+28.6%C$35.97MN/A-19.50N/APositive News
Gap Up
AGO
Big Tree Carbon
N/AC$0.15
flat
N/A+0.0%C$16.91MN/A-7.89410
BRO
Barksdale Resources
N/AC$0.11
+5.0%
N/A-14.3%C$13.78MN/A-3.2015,200Gap Up
FAF
Fire & Flower
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$13.09MC$170.21M-0.1421,200Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:ROOT) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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