Tree Island Steel (TSL) Competitors

Aclara Resources (TSE:ARA) and Tree Island Steel (TSE:TSL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ARA or TSL?

Tree Island Steel received 208 more outperform votes than Aclara Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.91% of users gave Tree Island Steel an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Aclara Resources an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Aclara Resources	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 1 100.00%
Tree Island Steel	Outperform Votes 208 75.91%	Underperform Votes 66 24.09%

Do analysts rate ARA or TSL?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aclara Resources	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Tree Island Steel	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, ARA or TSL?

Tree Island Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Aclara Resources. Aclara Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tree Island Steel, 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
Aclara Resources	N/A	N/A	-C$11.38M	-C$0.09	-5.44
Tree Island Steel	C$239.57M	0.36	C$7.55M	C$0.27	11.78

Which has more risk and volatility, ARA or TSL?

Aclara Resources has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tree Island Steel has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer ARA or TSL?

In the previous week, Tree Island Steel had 2 more articles in the media than Aclara Resources. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tree Island Steel and 0 mentions for Aclara Resources. Aclara Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Tree Island Steel's score of 0.00 indicating that Tree Island Steel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Aclara Resources	Neutral
Tree Island Steel	Positive

Is ARA or TSL more profitable?

Tree Island Steel has a net margin of 3.15% compared to Tree Island Steel's net margin of 0.00%. Aclara Resources' return on equity of 5.92% beat Tree Island Steel's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aclara Resources	N/A	-7.81%	-5.68%
Tree Island Steel	3.15%	5.92%	5.99%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of ARA or TSL?

8.5% of Aclara Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Tree Island Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.7% of Aclara Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.9% of Tree Island Steel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Tree Island Steel beats Aclara Resources on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.