RPI.UN vs. SXP, CCL.A, CAS, PZA, BPF.UN, RAY.A, TWC, XTC, CKI, and AW.UN
Should you be buying Richards Packaging Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Richards Packaging Income Fund include Supremex (SXP), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Cascades (CAS), Pizza Pizza Royalty (PZA), Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (BPF.UN), Stingray Group (RAY.A), TWC Enterprises (TWC), Exco Technologies (XTC), Clarke (CKI), and A and W Revenue Royalties Income Fund (AW.UN). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Supremex (TSE:SXP) 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 businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Supremex received 59 more outperform votes than Richards Packaging Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.53% of users gave Supremex an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave Richards Packaging Income Fund an outperform vote.
Supremex presently has a consensus target price of C$5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.07%. Given Richards Packaging Income Fund's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Supremex is more favorable than Richards Packaging Income Fund.
3.5% of Supremex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 37.1% of Supremex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.5% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are held by 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.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Supremex. Supremex 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.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has a net margin of 9.13% compared to Richards Packaging Income Fund's net margin of 5.74%. Supremex's return on equity of 22.77% beat Richards Packaging Income Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, Richards Packaging Income Fund had 4 more articles in the media than Supremex. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Richards Packaging Income Fund and 0 mentions for Supremex. Richards Packaging Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Supremex's score of -0.08 indicating that Supremex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Supremex pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Supremex pays out 23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays out 42.3% 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. Supremex is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Supremex has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richards Packaging Income Fund has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Richards Packaging Income Fund beats Supremex on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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