ZZZ vs. CTC, GBT, LNF, PBL, CAS, MRE, CCL.A, TCL.A, TOY, and GOOS
Should you be buying Sleep Country Canada stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sleep Country Canada include Canadian Tire (CTC), BMTC Group (GBT), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Pollard Banknote (PBL), Cascades (CAS), Martinrea International (MRE), CCL Industries (CCL.A), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Spin Master (TOY), and Canada Goose (GOOS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Canadian Tire (TSE:CTC) and Sleep Country Canada (TSE:ZZZ) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Sleep Country Canada received 297 more outperform votes than Canadian Tire when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.90% of users gave Canadian Tire an outperform vote while only 72.56% of users gave Sleep Country Canada an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Canadian Tire had 2 more articles in the media than Sleep Country Canada. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Tire and 0 mentions for Sleep Country Canada. Canadian Tire's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Sleep Country Canada's score of -0.21 indicating that Sleep Country Canada is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Tire pays an annual dividend of C$7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Sleep Country Canada pays an annual dividend of C$0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Canadian Tire pays out 185.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sleep Country Canada pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sleep Country Canada is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sleep Country Canada has a consensus price target of C$32.43, suggesting a potential upside of 16.99%. Given Canadian Tire's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sleep Country Canada is more favorable than Canadian Tire.
Canadian Tire has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sleep Country Canada has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
13.1% of Canadian Tire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by institutional investors. 81.9% of Canadian Tire shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Sleep Country Canada shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sleep Country Canada has a net margin of 7.61% compared to Sleep Country Canada's net margin of 1.28%. Canadian Tire's return on equity of 16.85% beat Sleep Country Canada's return on equity.
Canadian Tire has higher revenue and earnings than Sleep Country Canada. Sleep Country Canada is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Tire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sleep Country Canada beats Canadian Tire on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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