CRON vs. WEED, TLRY, GUD, ACB, BHC, DNTL, SIA, WELL, EXE, and OGI
Should you be buying Cronos Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cronos Group include Canopy Growth (WEED), Tilray Brands (TLRY), Knight Therapeutics (GUD), Aurora Cannabis (ACB), Bausch Health Companies (BHC), dentalcorp (DNTL), Sienna Senior Living (SIA), WELL Health Technologies (WELL), Extendicare (EXE), and Organigram (OGI). These companies are all part of the "medical" sector.
Canopy Growth (TSE:WEED) and Cronos Group (TSE:CRON) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Canopy Growth has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cronos Group has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Canopy Growth had 2 more articles in the media than Cronos Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Canopy Growth and 3 mentions for Cronos Group. Cronos Group's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Canopy Growth's score of 0.53 indicating that Canopy Growth is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Canopy Growth received 571 more outperform votes than Cronos Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.44% of users gave Canopy Growth an outperform vote while only 50.74% of users gave Cronos Group an outperform vote.
Canopy Growth presently has a consensus target price of C$3.20, indicating a potential downside of 78.39%. Cronos Group has a consensus target price of C$3.18, indicating a potential downside of 20.30%. Given Canopy Growth's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cronos Group is more favorable than Canopy Growth.
Cronos Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Canopy Growth. Cronos Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canopy Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canopy Growth has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Canopy Growth's net margin of -61.31%. Canopy Growth's return on equity of -4.99% beat Cronos Group's return on equity.
4.3% of Canopy Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Cronos Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Canopy Growth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.4% of Cronos Group 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.
Summary
Cronos Group beats Canopy Growth on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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