CCA vs. BTO, EFR, SPE, PEO, EVT, EFL, CGO, EMO, CET, and NCA
Should you be buying Cogeco Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cogeco Communications include B2Gold (BTO), Energy Fuels (EFR), Spartan Energy (SPE), People (PEO), Economic Investment Trust (EVT), Electrovaya (EFL), Cogeco (CGO), Emerita Resources (EMO), Cathedral Energy Services (CET), and NewCastle Gold (NCA). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Cogeco Communications vs.
B2Gold (TSE:BTO) and Cogeco Communications (TSE:CCA) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Cogeco Communications has a net margin of 11.44% compared to B2Gold's net margin of -7.23%. Cogeco Communications' return on equity of 10.52% beat B2Gold's return on equity.
B2Gold currently has a consensus price target of C$5.79, indicating a potential upside of 66.79%. Cogeco Communications has a consensus price target of C$76.17, indicating a potential upside of 22.65%. Given B2Gold's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe B2Gold is more favorable than Cogeco Communications.
Cogeco Communications has higher revenue and earnings than B2Gold. B2Gold is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cogeco Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B2Gold pays an annual dividend of C$0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Cogeco Communications pays an annual dividend of C$3.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. B2Gold pays out -129.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cogeco Communications pays out 43.6% 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. B2Gold is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
B2Gold received 452 more outperform votes than Cogeco Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.17% of users gave B2Gold an outperform vote while only 59.19% of users gave Cogeco Communications an outperform vote.
62.4% of B2Gold shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.4% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of B2Gold shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Cogeco Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
B2Gold has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cogeco Communications has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cogeco Communications had 8 more articles in the media than B2Gold. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Cogeco Communications and 19 mentions for B2Gold. B2Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Cogeco Communications' score of 0.09 indicating that B2Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
B2Gold beats Cogeco Communications on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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