EFN vs. CAE, TIH, AC, BBD.B, FTT, STN, ATS, SES, RUS, and EIF Should you be buying Element Fleet Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Element Fleet Management include CAE (CAE), Toromont Industries (TIH), Air Canada (AC), Bombardier, Inc. Class B (BBD.B), Finning International (FTT), Stantec (STN), ATS (ATS), Secure Energy Services (SES), Russel Metals (RUS), and Exchange Income (EIF). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Element Fleet Management (TSE:EFN ) and CAE (TSE:CAE ) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
Element Fleet Management currently has a consensus target price of C$28.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.90%. CAE has a consensus target price of C$32.80, indicating a potential upside of 18.63%. Given CAE's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CAE is more favorable than Element Fleet Management.
Element Fleet Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CAE. Element Fleet Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CAE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Element Fleet Management has a net margin of 23.38% compared to CAE's net margin of 6.13%. Element Fleet Management's return on equity of 12.30% beat CAE's return on equity.
Element Fleet Management has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CAE has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Element Fleet Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. CAE pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Element Fleet Management pays out 43.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CAE pays out 51.2% 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. Element Fleet Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Element Fleet Management had 29 more articles in the media than CAE. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Element Fleet Management and 4 mentions for CAE. Element Fleet Management's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat CAE's score of 0.22 indicating that Element Fleet Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
53.6% of Element Fleet Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of CAE shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Element Fleet Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of CAE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Element Fleet Management received 277 more outperform votes than CAE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.67% of users gave Element Fleet Management an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave CAE an outperform vote.
Summary Element Fleet Management beats CAE on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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