RSI vs. LAS.A, HLF, CSW.A, SOY, JWEL, NWC, ADW.A, GCL, CRP, and KPT
Should you be buying Rogers Sugar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rogers Sugar include Lassonde Industries (LAS.A), High Liner Foods (HLF), Corby Spirit and Wine (CSW.A), SunOpta (SOY), Jamieson Wellness (JWEL), North West (NWC), Andrew Peller (ADW.A), Colabor Group (GCL), Ceres Global (CRP), and KP Tissue (KPT). These companies are all part of the "consumer defensive" sector.
Rogers Sugar (TSE:RSI) and Lassonde Industries (TSE:LAS.A) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Lassonde Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Rogers Sugar. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lassonde Industries and 0 mentions for Rogers Sugar. Lassonde Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Rogers Sugar's score of 0.00 indicating that Lassonde Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lassonde Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Rogers Sugar. Lassonde Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Sugar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rogers Sugar pays an annual dividend of C$0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Lassonde Industries pays an annual dividend of C$4.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Rogers Sugar pays out 85.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lassonde Industries pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Rogers Sugar has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lassonde Industries has a beta of -0.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% less volatile than the S&P 500.
12.6% of Rogers Sugar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.9% of Lassonde Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Rogers Sugar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Lassonde Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lassonde Industries received 15 more outperform votes than Rogers Sugar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.86% of users gave Lassonde Industries an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave Rogers Sugar an outperform vote.
Rogers Sugar has a net margin of 4.50% compared to Lassonde Industries' net margin of 3.78%. Rogers Sugar's return on equity of 17.10% beat Lassonde Industries' return on equity.
Rogers Sugar currently has a consensus price target of C$6.15, suggesting a potential upside of 16.92%. Lassonde Industries has a consensus price target of C$174.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Lassonde Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lassonde Industries is more favorable than Rogers Sugar.
Summary
Lassonde Industries beats Rogers Sugar on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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