VLN vs. CWL, GRN, BUI, and GRID
Should you be buying Velan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Velan include Caldwell Partners International (CWL), Greenlane Renewables (GRN), Buhler Industries (BUI), and Tantalus Systems (GRID). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Caldwell Partners International (TSE:CWL) and Velan (TSE:VLN) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
Caldwell Partners International received 25 more outperform votes than Velan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.77% of users gave Caldwell Partners International an outperform vote while only 49.26% of users gave Velan an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Velan had 1 more articles in the media than Caldwell Partners International. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Velan and 0 mentions for Caldwell Partners International. Velan's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Caldwell Partners International'saverage media sentiment score.
Caldwell Partners International has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Velan has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Caldwell Partners International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Velan. Caldwell Partners International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Velan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Caldwell Partners International has a net margin of -3.95% compared to Caldwell Partners International's net margin of -15.30%. Velan's return on equity of -11.27% beat Caldwell Partners International's return on equity.
Caldwell Partners International pays an annual dividend of C$0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Velan pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Caldwell Partners International pays out -128.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Velan pays out -3.5% 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. Caldwell Partners International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
12.8% of Caldwell Partners International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Velan shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Caldwell Partners International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.4% of Velan shares are owned 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.
Summary
Caldwell Partners International beats Velan on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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