Canlan Ice Sports (ICE) Competitors

Canlan Ice Sports (TSE:ICE) and Dundee (TSE:DC.A) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ICE or DC.A?

Dundee received 13 more outperform votes than Canlan Ice Sports when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.46% of users gave Dundee an outperform vote while only 57.60% of users gave Canlan Ice Sports an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Canlan Ice Sports	Outperform Votes 72 57.60%	Underperform Votes 53 42.40%
Dundee	Outperform Votes 85 67.46%	Underperform Votes 41 32.54%

Which has more volatility & risk, ICE or DC.A?

Canlan Ice Sports has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Dundee has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in ICE or DC.A?

31.4% of Dundee shares are owned by institutional investors. 93.5% of Canlan Ice Sports shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of Dundee shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is ICE or DC.A a better dividend stock?

Canlan Ice Sports pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Dundee pays an annual dividend of C$0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Canlan Ice Sports pays out 333.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dundee pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dundee is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor ICE or DC.A?

In the previous week, Canlan Ice Sports and Canlan Ice Sports both had 1 articles in the media. Canlan Ice Sports' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Dundee's score of 0.20 indicating that Canlan Ice Sports is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Canlan Ice Sports	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Dundee	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has better earnings & valuation, ICE or DC.A?

Dundee has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Canlan Ice Sports. Dundee is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canlan Ice Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Canlan Ice Sports	C$92.61M	0.56	C$480.00K	C$0.04	108.92
Dundee	C$6.44M	30.13	C$30.73M	C$0.34	6.62

Is ICE or DC.A more profitable?

Dundee has a net margin of 478.33% compared to Canlan Ice Sports' net margin of 0.52%. Dundee's return on equity of 9.20% beat Canlan Ice Sports' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Canlan Ice Sports	0.52%	1.03%	0.83%
Dundee	478.33%	9.20%	-2.18%

Summary

Dundee beats Canlan Ice Sports on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.