ATZ vs. ROOT, CCL.B, GIL, CTC.A, BYD, LNR, BYD.UN, DOO, WPK, and GC
Should you be buying Aritzia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aritzia include Roots (ROOT), CCL Industries (CCL.B), Gildan Activewear (GIL), Canadian Tire (CTC.A), Boyd Group Services (BYD), Linamar (LNR), Boyd Group Income Fund (BYD.UN), BRP (DOO), Winpak (WPK), and Great Canadian Gaming (GC). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Roots (TSE:ROOT) and Aritzia (TSE:ATZ) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Aritzia received 134 more outperform votes than Roots when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.74% of users gave Aritzia an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote.
Aritzia has a net margin of 3.38% compared to Aritzia's net margin of 0.70%. Roots' return on equity of 10.55% beat Aritzia's return on equity.
Aritzia has higher revenue and earnings than Roots. Aritzia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.1% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of Aritzia shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Roots shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Aritzia shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Aritzia had 8 more articles in the media than Roots. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Aritzia and 0 mentions for Roots. Roots' average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Aritzia's score of 0.00 indicating that Aritzia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Roots presently has a consensus target price of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 45.09%. Aritzia has a consensus target price of C$41.60, indicating a potential upside of 22.17%. Given Aritzia's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Roots is more favorable than Aritzia.
Roots has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aritzia has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Aritzia beats Roots on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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