WEF vs. GFP, GDL, ADN, ITH, FSY, PTM, DNG, SMT, MND, and GOLD
Should you be buying Western Forest Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Forest Products include GreenFirst Forest Products (GFP), Goodfellow (GDL), Acadian Timber (ADN), International Tower Hill Mines (ITH), Forsys Metals (FSY), Platinum Group Metals (PTM), Dynacor Group (DNG), Sierra Metals (SMT), Mandalay Resources (MND), and GoldMining (GOLD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) and Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Western Forest Products had 1 more articles in the media than GreenFirst Forest Products. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Western Forest Products and 0 mentions for GreenFirst Forest Products. Western Forest Products' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat GreenFirst Forest Products' score of -0.95 indicating that GreenFirst Forest Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GreenFirst Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 108.3%. Western Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. GreenFirst Forest Products pays out -288.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Forest Products pays out -22.7% 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. GreenFirst Forest Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Western Forest Products has a net margin of -6.73% compared to Western Forest Products' net margin of -11.48%. GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity of -11.50% beat Western Forest Products' return on equity.
Western Forest Products has a consensus price target of C$0.73, suggesting a potential upside of 32.73%. Given GreenFirst Forest Products' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Western Forest Products is more favorable than GreenFirst Forest Products.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Forest Products has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
36.2% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Western Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Western Forest Products shares are owned 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.
Western Forest Products received 396 more outperform votes than GreenFirst Forest Products when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Western Forest Products an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GreenFirst Forest Products an outperform vote.
GreenFirst Forest Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Western Forest Products. GreenFirst Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Forest Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Western Forest Products beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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