CAS vs. UFS, ITP, RFP, DSY, GLN, AEZ, WPK, CCL.A, IPLP, and RPI.UN
Should you be buying Cascades stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cascades include Domtar (UFS), Intertape Polymer Group (ITP), Resolute Forest Products (RFP), Destiny Media Technologies (DSY), 14845 (GLN.TO) (GLN), 43844 (AEZ.TO) (AEZ), Winpak (WPK), CCL Industries (CCL.A), IPL Plastics Inc. (IPLP.TO) (IPLP), and Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN).
Cascades vs.
Domtar (TSE:UFS) and Cascades (TSE:CAS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Cascades had 13 more articles in the media than Domtar. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Cascades and 0 mentions for Domtar. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Domtar's score of 0.00 indicating that Cascades is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Domtar has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cascades has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
99.1% of Domtar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Cascades shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Domtar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of Cascades shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Domtar has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domtar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cascades has a consensus price target of C$12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.65%. Given Domtar's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Domtar is more favorable than Cascades.
Cascades received 283 more outperform votes than Domtar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.49% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote while only 51.82% of users gave Domtar an outperform vote.
Domtar has a net margin of 2.70% compared to Cascades' net margin of -0.91%. Domtar's return on equity of 4.36% beat Cascades' return on equity.
Summary
Domtar beats Cascades on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:CAS) was last updated on 1/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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