TCL.A vs. PBL, ZZZ, TOY, CAS, MRE, MTY, CCL.A, CTC, GOOS, and NFI
Should you be buying Transcontinental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transcontinental include Pollard Banknote (PBL), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Spin Master (TOY), Cascades (CAS), Martinrea International (MRE), MTY Food Group (MTY), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Canadian Tire (CTC), Canada Goose (GOOS), and NFI Group (NFI). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Pollard Banknote (TSE:PBL) and Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.A) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Pollard Banknote had 4 more articles in the media than Transcontinental. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Pollard Banknote and 2 mentions for Transcontinental. Transcontinental's average media sentiment score of -0.08 beat Pollard Banknote's score of -0.20 indicating that Pollard Banknote is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Transcontinental has higher revenue and earnings than Pollard Banknote. Transcontinental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pollard Banknote, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pollard Banknote has a net margin of 6.04% compared to Pollard Banknote's net margin of 3.39%. Transcontinental's return on equity of 11.93% beat Pollard Banknote's return on equity.
Pollard Banknote has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transcontinental has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
14.7% of Pollard Banknote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of Transcontinental shares are held by institutional investors. 64.3% of Pollard Banknote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Transcontinental shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pollard Banknote pays an annual dividend of C$0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Pollard Banknote pays out 17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Transcontinental pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Transcontinental received 121 more outperform votes than Pollard Banknote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.31% of users gave Pollard Banknote an outperform vote while only 55.35% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote.
Pollard Banknote presently has a consensus target price of C$42.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.45%. Transcontinental has a consensus target price of C$19.08, indicating a potential upside of 29.73%. Given Pollard Banknote's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Transcontinental is more favorable than Pollard Banknote.
Summary
Pollard Banknote beats Transcontinental on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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