WJX vs. DBM, RUS, BBD.A, CGY, HRX, ALC, AND, GDI, BDI, and ISV
Should you be buying Wajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wajax include Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Russel Metals (RUS), Bombardier (BBD.A), Calian Group (CGY), Héroux-Devtek (HRX), Algoma Central (ALC), Andlauer Healthcare Group (AND), GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), and Information Services (ISV). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Doman Building Materials Group (TSE:DBM) and Wajax (TSE:WJX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
Doman Building Materials Group presently has a consensus target price of C$10.29, indicating a potential upside of 33.14%. Wajax has a consensus target price of C$34.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.70%. Given Wajax's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Doman Building Materials Group is more favorable than Wajax.
In the previous week, Wajax had 3 more articles in the media than Doman Building Materials Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Wajax and 1 mentions for Doman Building Materials Group. Wajax's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Doman Building Materials Group's score of 0.51 indicating that Doman Building Materials Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
4.6% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Wajax shares are held by institutional investors. 20.1% of Doman Building Materials Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Wajax shares are held 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.
Wajax has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Doman Building Materials Group. Doman Building Materials Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wajax, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Doman Building Materials Group has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wajax has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Doman Building Materials Group received 127 more outperform votes than Wajax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.64% of users gave Doman Building Materials Group an outperform vote while only 50.88% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
Doman Building Materials Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Doman Building Materials Group pays out 64.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wajax pays out 38.5% 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.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.76% compared to Wajax's net margin of 3.04%. Doman Building Materials Group's return on equity of 17.12% beat Wajax's return on equity.
Summary
Wajax beats Doman Building Materials Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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