EFX vs. SJ, NVEI, QBR.A, LIF, TIXT, CHR, MAX, FC, PMTS, and TGL
Should you be buying Enerflex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerflex include Stella-Jones (SJ), Nuvei (NVEI), Quebecor (QBR.A), Labrador Iron Ore Royalty (LIF), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Chorus Aviation (CHR), Midas Gold Corp. (MAX.TO) (MAX), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), CPI Card Group (PMTS), and TransGlobe Energy (TGL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Enerflex vs.
Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) and Enerflex (TSE:EFX) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
63.6% of Stella-Jones shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Enerflex shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Stella-Jones shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Enerflex shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Stella-Jones has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerflex has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enerflex received 84 more outperform votes than Stella-Jones when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.32% of users gave Enerflex an outperform vote while only 63.34% of users gave Stella-Jones an outperform vote.
Stella-Jones has higher revenue and earnings than Enerflex. Enerflex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stella-Jones, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stella-Jones presently has a consensus target price of C$86.60, suggesting a potential upside of 29.66%. Enerflex has a consensus target price of C$13.97, suggesting a potential upside of 22.32%. Given Stella-Jones' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Stella-Jones is more favorable than Enerflex.
Stella-Jones pays an annual dividend of C$1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Enerflex pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Stella-Jones pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerflex pays out -10.9% 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.
Stella-Jones has a net margin of 9.43% compared to Enerflex's net margin of -3.72%. Stella-Jones' return on equity of 18.36% beat Enerflex's return on equity.
In the previous week, Enerflex had 2 more articles in the media than Stella-Jones. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Enerflex and 1 mentions for Stella-Jones. Enerflex's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Stella-Jones' score of 0.00 indicating that Enerflex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Stella-Jones beats Enerflex on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:EFX) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
