LNF vs. PET, ZZZ, CTC, GBT, CLIQ, IDG, RUM, FTI, LXR, and BKS
Should you be buying Leon's Furniture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leon's Furniture include Pet Valu (PET), Sleep Country Canada (ZZZ), Canadian Tire (CTC), 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.
Leon's Furniture vs.
Pet Valu (TSE:PET) and Leon's Furniture (TSE:LNF) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Pet Valu currently has a consensus price target of C$31.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.15%. Leon's Furniture has a consensus price target of C$29.25, indicating a potential upside of 16.53%. Given Pet Valu's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Pet Valu is more favorable than Leon's Furniture.
Leon's Furniture received 92 more outperform votes than Pet Valu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.01% of users gave Leon's Furniture an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Pet Valu an outperform vote.
Pet Valu has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Leon's Furniture has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pet Valu pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Leon's Furniture pays an annual dividend of C$0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Pet Valu pays out 38.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Leon's Furniture pays out 37.4% 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. Leon's Furniture is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pet Valu has a net margin of 7.64% compared to Leon's Furniture's net margin of 5.84%. Pet Valu's return on equity of 128.24% beat Leon's Furniture's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pet Valu's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Leon's Furniture'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 owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Pet Valu shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.5% of Leon's Furniture shares are owned by 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.
Leon's Furniture has higher revenue and earnings than Pet Valu. Leon's Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pet Valu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pet Valu beats Leon's Furniture on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:LNF) was last updated on 1/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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