ROOT vs. CNC, STC, 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 Canada Nickel (CNC), Sangoma Technologies (STC), 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.
Roots (TSE:ROOT) and Canada Nickel (CVE:CNC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Roots received 164 more outperform votes than Canada Nickel when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote while only 56.10% of users gave Canada Nickel an outperform vote.
51.0% of Roots shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Canada Nickel shares are held by institutional investors. 14.2% of Roots shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of Canada Nickel shares are held 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.
Roots has higher revenue and earnings than Canada Nickel. Canada Nickel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roots has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canada Nickel has a beta of 2.31, meaning that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canada Nickel had 1 more articles in the media than Roots. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Canada Nickel and 0 mentions for Roots. Canada Nickel's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Roots' score of 0.00 indicating that Canada Nickel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Roots has a net margin of 1.11% compared to Canada Nickel's net margin of 0.00%. Roots' return on equity of 1.58% beat Canada Nickel's return on equity.
Summary
Roots beats Canada Nickel on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ROOT) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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