SOY vs. MRC, TOT, AKG, OMI, NUS, COR, TEL, CALI, UUU, and MIC
Should you be buying SunOpta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SunOpta include Morguard (MRC), Total Energy Services (TOT), Asanko Gold (AKG), Orosur Mining (OMI), Nautilus Minerals (NUS), Camino Minerals (COR), Tellza (TEL), China Auto Logistics (CALI), Uranium One (UUU), and Sagen MI Canada (MIC). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Morguard (TSE:MRC) and SunOpta (TSE:SOY) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
SunOpta received 42 more outperform votes than Morguard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.31% of users gave SunOpta an outperform vote while only 69.12% of users gave Morguard an outperform vote.
Morguard currently has a consensus target price of C$135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.27%. Given SunOpta's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Morguard is more favorable than SunOpta.
Morguard has a net margin of 19.45% compared to Morguard's net margin of -26.43%. SunOpta's return on equity of 4.67% beat Morguard's return on equity.
3.3% of Morguard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of SunOpta shares are held by institutional investors. 73.0% of Morguard shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of SunOpta shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Morguard had 1 more articles in the media than SunOpta. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Morguard and 0 mentions for SunOpta. SunOpta's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Morguard'saverage media sentiment score.
Morguard has higher revenue and earnings than SunOpta. SunOpta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Morguard has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SunOpta has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Morguard beats SunOpta on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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