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Should you be buying Element Fleet Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Element Fleet Management include EnerCare (ECI), Black Diamond Group (BDI), Noble Iron (NIR), WSP Global (WSP), GFL Environmental (GFL), RB Global (RBA), Stantec (STN), CAE (CAE), Toromont Industries (TIH), and SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC).
Element Fleet Management vs.
EnerCare (TSE:ECI) and Element Fleet Management (TSE:EFN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
Element Fleet Management has a net margin of 16.46% compared to EnerCare's net margin of 0.00%. Element Fleet Management's return on equity of 11.33% beat EnerCare's return on equity.
Element Fleet Management has higher revenue and earnings than EnerCare. EnerCare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Fleet Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Element Fleet Management has a consensus price target of C$34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.99%. Given Element Fleet Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Element Fleet Management is more favorable than EnerCare.
50.4% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Element Fleet Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EnerCare pays an annual dividend of C$0.97 per share. Element Fleet Management pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. EnerCare pays out 150.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Element Fleet Management pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Element Fleet Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Element Fleet Management had 1 more articles in the media than EnerCare. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Element Fleet Management and 0 mentions for EnerCare. Element Fleet Management's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat EnerCare's score of 0.00 indicating that Element Fleet Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Element Fleet Management received 234 more outperform votes than EnerCare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.16% of users gave Element Fleet Management an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave EnerCare an outperform vote.
Summary
Element Fleet Management beats EnerCare on 18 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:EFN) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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