RCH vs. NFI, LNF, WPK, ATZ, MTY, TOY, CAS, TCL.A, MRE, and PBL Should you be buying Richelieu Hardware stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Richelieu Hardware include NFI Group (NFI), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Winpak (WPK), Aritzia (ATZ), MTY Food Group (MTY), Spin Master (TOY), Cascades (CAS), Transcontinental (TCL.A), Martinrea International (MRE), and Pollard Banknote (PBL). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
Richelieu Hardware (TSE:RCH ) and NFI Group (TSE:NFI ) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Richelieu Hardware has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NFI Group. NFI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Richelieu Hardware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Richelieu Hardware pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. NFI Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Richelieu Hardware pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NFI Group pays out -15.8% 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.
Richelieu Hardware has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NFI Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
55.8% of Richelieu Hardware shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.7% of NFI Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Richelieu Hardware shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of NFI Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, NFI Group had 8 more articles in the media than Richelieu Hardware. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for NFI Group and 0 mentions for Richelieu Hardware. NFI Group's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Richelieu Hardware's score of 0.00 indicating that NFI Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Richelieu Hardware has a net margin of 5.82% compared to NFI Group's net margin of -3.45%. Richelieu Hardware's return on equity of 12.18% beat NFI Group's return on equity.
Richelieu Hardware presently has a consensus target price of C$45.25, indicating a potential upside of 15.08%. NFI Group has a consensus target price of C$19.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.38%. Given NFI Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NFI Group is more favorable than Richelieu Hardware.
NFI Group received 69 more outperform votes than Richelieu Hardware when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.33% of users gave Richelieu Hardware an outperform vote while only 63.55% of users gave NFI Group an outperform vote.
Summary Richelieu Hardware beats NFI Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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