TCL.B vs. Y, PNC.B, PNC.A, GCT, TS.B, GVC, LM, TCL.A, MTY, and CCL.A
Should you be buying Transcontinental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transcontinental include Yellow Pages (Y), Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC (PNC.B), Postmedia Network Canada (PNC.A), GVIC Communications (GCT), Torstar (TS.B), Glacier Media (GVC), Lingo Media (LM), Transcontinental (TCL.A), MTY Food Group (MTY), and CCL Industries (CCL.A).
Transcontinental vs. Its Competitors
Yellow Pages (TSE:Y) and Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.B) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Yellow Pages pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Yellow Pages pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Transcontinental pays out 67.7% 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. Yellow Pages is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Transcontinental has higher revenue and earnings than Yellow Pages. Yellow Pages is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transcontinental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.5% of Yellow Pages shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Yellow Pages shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 94.1% of Transcontinental shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Yellow Pages has a net margin of 15.71% compared to Transcontinental's net margin of 4.05%. Yellow Pages' return on equity of 63.35% beat Transcontinental's return on equity.
Yellow Pages received 96 more outperform votes than Transcontinental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.25% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote while only 54.38% of users gave Yellow Pages an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Yellow Pages had 2 more articles in the media than Transcontinental. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Yellow Pages and 1 mentions for Transcontinental. Transcontinental's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Yellow Pages' score of 0.00 indicating that Transcontinental is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yellow Pages has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Transcontinental has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Yellow Pages beats Transcontinental on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:TCL.B) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
