KBL vs. GDI, CGY, DXT, ISV, DCM, KUT, TRI, RBA, WTE, and ARE
Should you be buying K-Bro Linen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of K-Bro Linen include GDI Integrated Facility Services (GDI), Calian Group (CGY), Dexterra Group (DXT), Information Services (ISV), DATA Communications Management (DCM), RediShred Capital (KUT), Thomson Reuters (TRI), RB Global (RBA), Westshore Terminals Investment (WTE), and Aecon Group (ARE). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
K-Bro Linen vs.
K-Bro Linen (TSE:KBL) and GDI Integrated Facility Services (TSE:GDI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
K-Bro Linen has a net margin of 5.19% compared to GDI Integrated Facility Services' net margin of 0.59%. K-Bro Linen's return on equity of 10.47% beat GDI Integrated Facility Services' return on equity.
K-Bro Linen currently has a consensus target price of C$46.63, suggesting a potential upside of 34.60%. GDI Integrated Facility Services has a consensus target price of C$44.25, suggesting a potential upside of 29.35%. Given K-Bro Linen's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe K-Bro Linen is more favorable than GDI Integrated Facility Services.
34.4% of K-Bro Linen shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of GDI Integrated Facility Services shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of K-Bro Linen shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of GDI Integrated Facility Services 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.
In the previous week, GDI Integrated Facility Services had 1 more articles in the media than K-Bro Linen. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for GDI Integrated Facility Services and 1 mentions for K-Bro Linen. GDI Integrated Facility Services' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat K-Bro Linen's score of 0.59 indicating that GDI Integrated Facility Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
K-Bro Linen has higher earnings, but lower revenue than GDI Integrated Facility Services. K-Bro Linen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GDI Integrated Facility Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
K-Bro Linen has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GDI Integrated Facility Services has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GDI Integrated Facility Services received 19 more outperform votes than K-Bro Linen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.57% of users gave K-Bro Linen an outperform vote while only 64.45% of users gave GDI Integrated Facility Services an outperform vote.
Summary
K-Bro Linen beats GDI Integrated Facility Services on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:KBL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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