Sienna Senior Living (SIA) Competitors

Sienna Senior Living (TSE:SIA) and dentalcorp (TSE:DNTL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in SIA or DNTL?

14.6% of Sienna Senior Living shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of dentalcorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Sienna Senior Living shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of dentalcorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is SIA or DNTL more profitable?

Sienna Senior Living has a net margin of 3.57% compared to dentalcorp's net margin of -5.40%. Sienna Senior Living's return on equity of 7.71% beat dentalcorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sienna Senior Living	3.57%	7.71%	3.58%
dentalcorp	-5.40%	-4.71%	0.77%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SIA or DNTL?

Sienna Senior Living received 204 more outperform votes than dentalcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.07% of users gave dentalcorp an outperform vote while only 53.20% of users gave Sienna Senior Living an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Sienna Senior Living	Outperform Votes 241 53.20%	Underperform Votes 212 46.80%
dentalcorp	Outperform Votes 37 66.07%	Underperform Votes 19 33.93%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, SIA or DNTL?

Sienna Senior Living has higher earnings, but lower revenue than dentalcorp. dentalcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sienna Senior Living, 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
Sienna Senior Living	C$938.65M	1.57	C$33.51M	C$0.40	44.12
dentalcorp	C$1.49B	1.09	-C$80.68M	-C$0.43	-20.16

Does the media refer more to SIA or DNTL?

In the previous week, Sienna Senior Living had 4 more articles in the media than dentalcorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sienna Senior Living and 1 mentions for dentalcorp. Sienna Senior Living's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat dentalcorp's score of 0.51 indicating that Sienna Senior Living is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Sienna Senior Living	Positive
dentalcorp	Positive

Do analysts rate SIA or DNTL?

Sienna Senior Living currently has a consensus target price of C$18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.82%. dentalcorp has a consensus target price of C$12.59, suggesting a potential upside of 45.26%. Given dentalcorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe dentalcorp is more favorable than Sienna Senior Living.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sienna Senior Living	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
dentalcorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more risk and volatility, SIA or DNTL?

Sienna Senior Living has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, dentalcorp has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Sienna Senior Living beats dentalcorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.