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C$3.20 +0.13 (+4.23%)
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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.

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)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Sangoma TechnologiesOutperform Votes
143
65.00%
Underperform Votes
77
35.00%
RootsOutperform Votes
187
59.37%
Underperform Votes
128
40.63%

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.

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

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$174.58M1.09-C$4.90M-C$0.29-27.82
RootsC$261.62M0.49C$2.89MC$0.0744.72

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

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ROOT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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$129.43MC$5.45BC$3.38BC$6.09B
Dividend YieldN/A3.04%3.51%6.72%
P/E Ratio44.7257.3770.5735.87
Price / Sales0.4966.3869.691,010.47
Price / Cash14.2227.2831.0983.29
Price / Book0.724.433.804.24
Net IncomeC$2.89MC$256.81MC$263.83MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance4.23%0.29%0.99%1.92%
1 Month Performance4.58%2.48%4.15%6.37%
1 Year Performance45.45%24.06%2,597.16%23.38%

Roots Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ROOT
Roots
N/AC$3.20
+4.2%
N/A+41.5%C$129.43MC$261.62M44.72760
STC
Sangoma Technologies
N/AC$7.79
+2.5%
C$11.50
+47.6%
+100.0%C$186.91MC$174.58M-27.261,342Gap Up
CNC
Canada Nickel
N/AC$0.95
+3.3%
N/A-26.0%C$171.82MN/A-19.3574,300News Coverage
Gap Down
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$0.19
-2.6%
N/A+48.0%C$35.05MN/A-19.00N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down
AGO
Big Tree Carbon
N/AC$0.15
flat
N/A+0.0%C$16.91MN/A-7.89410
FAF
Fire & Flower
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$13.09MC$170.21M-0.1421,200Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BRO
Barksdale Resources
N/AC$0.06
+9.1%
N/A-40.0%C$7.88MN/A-1.8315,200Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:ROOT) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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