CTC vs. PET, LNF, ZZZ, 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 Pet Valu (PET), Leon's Furniture (LNF), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), 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 vs.
Pet Valu (TSE:PET) and Canadian Tire (TSE:CTC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
In the previous week, Canadian Tire had 2 more articles in the media than Pet Valu. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Tire and 0 mentions for Pet Valu. Pet Valu's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Canadian Tire's score of 0.00 indicating that Pet Valu is being referred to more favorably in the media.
76.2% of Pet Valu shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.3% of Canadian Tire shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Pet Valu shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 81.9% of Canadian Tire 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.
Pet Valu has a net margin of 7.64% compared to Canadian Tire's net margin of 2.33%. Pet Valu's return on equity of 128.24% beat Canadian Tire's return on equity.
Pet Valu has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian Tire has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pet Valu presently has a consensus target price of C$31.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.18%. Given Pet Valu's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pet Valu is more favorable than Canadian Tire.
Pet Valu pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Canadian Tire pays an annual dividend of C$7.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Pet Valu pays out 38.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian Tire pays out 102.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Canadian Tire received 206 more outperform votes than Pet Valu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.70% of users gave Canadian Tire an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Pet Valu an outperform vote.
Canadian Tire has higher revenue and earnings than Pet Valu. Pet Valu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Tire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pet Valu beats Canadian Tire on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:CTC) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
