TCL.A vs. TOY, CAS, PBL, ZZZ, MTY, MRE, CCL.A, CTC, NFI, and GOOS
Should you be buying Transcontinental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transcontinental include Spin Master (TOY), Cascades (CAS), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), MTY Food Group (MTY), Martinrea International (MRE), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Canadian Tire (CTC), NFI Group (NFI), and Canada Goose (GOOS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.A) and Spin Master (TSE:TOY) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Spin Master pays an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. 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. Spin Master pays out 12.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Transcontinental has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Spin Master has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Transcontinental currently has a consensus target price of C$19.08, suggesting a potential upside of 31.70%. Spin Master has a consensus target price of C$47.13, suggesting a potential upside of 52.11%. Given Spin Master's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Spin Master is more favorable than Transcontinental.
38.1% of Transcontinental shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.1% of Spin Master shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Transcontinental shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Spin Master shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Spin Master had 2 more articles in the media than Transcontinental. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Spin Master and 1 mentions for Transcontinental. Transcontinental's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Spin Master's score of 0.21 indicating that Transcontinental is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spin Master has a net margin of 7.95% compared to Transcontinental's net margin of 3.39%. Spin Master's return on equity of 11.34% beat Transcontinental's return on equity.
Spin Master has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Transcontinental. Transcontinental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spin Master, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spin Master received 346 more outperform votes than Transcontinental when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.61% of users gave Spin Master an outperform vote while only 55.35% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote.
Summary
Spin Master beats Transcontinental on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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