CTC.A vs. LNF, ZZZ, CTC, GBT, CLIQ, IDG, RUM, FTI, LXR, and BKS
Should you be buying Canadian Tire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Tire include Leon's Furniture (LNF), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canadian Tire (CTC), BMTC Group (GBT), Alcanna (CLIQ), Indigo Books & Music (IDG), Rocky Mountain Liquor (RUM), FTI Foodtech International (FTI), LXRandCo (LXR), and Berkley Renewables (BKS). These companies are all part of the "specialty retail" industry.
Canadian Tire (TSE:CTC.A) and Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Canadian Tire has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Tire currently has a consensus price target of C$144.63, suggesting a potential upside of 7.95%. Leon's Furniture has a consensus price target of C$24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.14%. Given Canadian Tire's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Canadian Tire is more favorable than Leon's Furniture.
Leon's Furniture has a net margin of 5.78% compared to Canadian Tire's net margin of 1.71%. Leon's Furniture's return on equity of 14.67% beat Canadian Tire's return on equity.
Canadian Tire pays an annual dividend of C$7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Canadian Tire pays out 139.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Leon's Furniture pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
32.1% of Canadian Tire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.8% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Canadian Tire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 69.5% of Leon's Furniture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Tire has higher revenue and earnings than Leon's Furniture. Leon's Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Tire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Canadian Tire had 4 more articles in the media than Leon's Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Canadian Tire and 3 mentions for Leon's Furniture. Canadian Tire's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Leon's Furniture's score of 0.33 indicating that Canadian Tire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Canadian Tire received 417 more outperform votes than Leon's Furniture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.18% of users gave Canadian Tire an outperform vote while only 59.87% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote.
Summary
Canadian Tire beats Leon's Furniture on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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