Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN) Competitors

Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSE:RPI.UN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Which has more volatility and risk, CAS or RPI.UN?

Cascades has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richards Packaging Income Fund has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CAS or RPI.UN?

Cascades received 366 more outperform votes than Richards Packaging Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave Richards Packaging Income Fund an outperform vote while only 63.32% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cascades	Outperform Votes 442 63.32%	Underperform Votes 256 36.68%
Richards Packaging Income Fund	Outperform Votes 76 63.33%	Underperform Votes 44 36.67%

Is CAS or RPI.UN a better dividend stock?

Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Cascades pays out -64.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays out 40.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts prefer CAS or RPI.UN?

Cascades presently has a consensus price target of C$11.90, indicating a potential upside of 34.77%. Given Cascades' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cascades is more favorable than Richards Packaging Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cascades	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
Richards Packaging Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CAS or RPI.UN?

Richards Packaging Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Richards Packaging Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cascades	C$4.64B	0.19	-C$75.12M	-C$0.74	-11.91
Richards Packaging Income Fund	C$415.52M	0.74	C$38.48M	C$3.27	8.55

Is CAS or RPI.UN more profitable?

Richards Packaging Income Fund has a net margin of 9.26% compared to Cascades' net margin of -1.62%. Richards Packaging Income Fund's return on equity of 21.32% beat Cascades' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cascades	-1.62%	-4.35%	2.49%
Richards Packaging Income Fund	9.26%	21.32%	10.78%

Does the media favor CAS or RPI.UN?

In the previous week, Cascades had 21 more articles in the media than Richards Packaging Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Cascades and 1 mentions for Richards Packaging Income Fund. Richards Packaging Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Cascades' score of -0.09 indicating that Richards Packaging Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cascades	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	6 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Richards Packaging Income Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders and institutionals believe in CAS or RPI.UN?

30.8% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.8% of Cascades shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Richards Packaging Income Fund beats Cascades on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.