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C$3.32 +0.12 (+3.75%)
As of 06/13/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

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

Roots (TSE:ROOT) and Sangoma Technologies (TSE:STC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.

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

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
RootsC$261.62M0.51C$2.89MC$0.0746.40
Sangoma TechnologiesC$174.58M1.09-C$4.90M-C$0.29-27.79

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

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

Company Overall Sentiment
Roots Neutral
Sangoma Technologies Neutral

Sangoma Technologies has a consensus target price of C$11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 44.84%. Given Sangoma Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sangoma Technologies is more favorable than Roots.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Roots
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Sangoma Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

51.0% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.2% of Roots shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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
Roots1.11% 1.58% 2.29%
Sangoma Technologies -2.81%-2.61%-0.16%

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$134.29MC$5.39BC$3.32BC$6.07B
Dividend YieldN/A3.04%3.51%6.72%
P/E Ratio46.4054.8574.8136.73
Price / Sales0.5166.5269.201,028.25
Price / Cash14.2227.2831.0983.29
Price / Book0.744.393.774.19
Net IncomeC$2.89MC$256.81MC$263.83MC$301.20M
7 Day Performance9.21%-0.50%0.30%1.24%
1 Month Performance5.73%0.31%2.49%6.31%
1 Year Performance53.00%21.41%2,609.03%29.15%

Roots Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ROOT
Roots
N/AC$3.32
+3.8%
N/A+52.3%C$134.29MC$261.62M46.40760High Trading Volume
STC
Sangoma Technologies
N/AC$7.79
+2.5%
C$11.50
+47.6%
+99.0%C$186.91MC$174.58M-27.261,342Gap Up
CNC
Canada Nickel
N/AC$0.95
+3.3%
N/A-32.3%C$171.82MN/A-19.3574,300News Coverage
Positive News
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+46.2%C$35.05MN/A-19.00N/A
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-32.3%C$7.88MN/A-1.8315,200Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (TSE:ROOT) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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