ALC vs. RME, NVCN, OM, BSX, STE, FRE, EW, MSA, GI, and GNF
Should you be buying Algoma Central stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Algoma Central include Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) (RME), Neovasc (NVCN), Osisko Metals (OM), Belo Sun Mining (BSX), Starr Peak Mining (STE), Fremont Gold (FRE), East West Petroleum (EW), Mesa Exploration (MSA), Gem International Resources (GI), and Greenfields Petroleum (GNF). These companies are all part of the "medical equipment" industry.
Algoma Central vs.
Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) (TSE:RME) and Algoma Central (TSE:ALC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
16.7% of Algoma Central shares are held by institutional investors. 54.6% of Algoma Central shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) pays an annual dividend of C$0.28 per share. Algoma Central pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) pays out 78.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Algoma Central pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Algoma Central is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Algoma Central has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO)'s net margin of 0.00%. Algoma Central's return on equity of 9.26% beat Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO)'s return on equity.
In the previous week, Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO)'s average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Algoma Central'saverage media sentiment score.
Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) received 150 more outperform votes than Algoma Central when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.12% of users gave Algoma Central an outperform vote while only 57.07% of users gave Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) an outperform vote.
Algoma Central has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO). Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Algoma Central, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Algoma Central beats Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ALC) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
