Y vs. WILD, BRAG, FORA, EGLX, CGX, CGO, GVC, EAGR, TGO, and BBTV
Should you be buying Yellow Pages stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yellow Pages include WildBrain (WILD), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), VerticalScope (FORA), Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX), Cineplex (CGX), Cogeco (CGO), Glacier Media (GVC), East Side Games Group (EAGR), TeraGo (TGO), and BBTV (BBTV). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
WildBrain (TSE:WILD) and Yellow Pages (TSE:Y) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Yellow Pages has a net margin of 26.06% compared to Yellow Pages' net margin of -10.45%. WildBrain's return on equity of 54.28% beat Yellow Pages' return on equity.
WildBrain currently has a consensus price target of C$2.55, indicating a potential upside of 112.50%. Yellow Pages has a consensus price target of C$13.75, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Yellow Pages' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe WildBrain is more favorable than Yellow Pages.
Yellow Pages received 144 more outperform votes than WildBrain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.58% of users gave Yellow Pages an outperform vote while only 31.25% of users gave WildBrain an outperform vote.
44.6% of WildBrain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 102.4% of Yellow Pages shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of WildBrain shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Yellow Pages shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Yellow Pages has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WildBrain. WildBrain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yellow Pages, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WildBrain pays an annual dividend of C$0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Yellow Pages pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. WildBrain pays out -26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yellow Pages pays out 24.0% 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.
In the previous week, Yellow Pages had 2 more articles in the media than WildBrain. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Yellow Pages and 1 mentions for WildBrain. Yellow Pages' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat WildBrain's score of 0.23 indicating that WildBrain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WildBrain has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow Pages has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Yellow Pages beats WildBrain on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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