Pet Valu (PET) Competitors

Pet Valu (TSE:PET) and CCL Industries (TSE:CCL.A) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Which has more volatility and risk, PET or CCL.A?

Pet Valu has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CCL Industries has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PET or CCL.A a better dividend stock?

Pet Valu pays an annual dividend of C$0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. CCL Industries pays an annual dividend of C$1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Pet Valu pays out 36.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CCL Industries pays out 30.6% 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.

Does the media favor PET or CCL.A?

In the previous week, Pet Valu and Pet Valu both had 1 articles in the media. Pet Valu's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat CCL Industries' score of 0.59 indicating that Pet Valu is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Pet Valu	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CCL Industries	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has higher earnings and valuation, PET or CCL.A?

CCL Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Pet Valu. CCL Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pet Valu, 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
Pet Valu	C$1.08B	1.64	C$86.60M	C$1.21	20.54
CCL Industries	C$6.94B	0.12	C$679.50M	C$3.76	18.75

Is PET or CCL.A more profitable?

CCL Industries has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Pet Valu's net margin of 8.02%. Pet Valu's return on equity of 100.39% beat CCL Industries' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pet Valu	8.02%	100.39%	11.38%
CCL Industries	9.80%	14.28%	6.87%

Do analysts prefer PET or CCL.A?

Pet Valu presently has a consensus price target of C$31.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.46%. Given Pet Valu's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Pet Valu is more favorable than CCL Industries.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pet Valu	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.25
CCL Industries	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PET or CCL.A?

76.2% of Pet Valu shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of CCL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Pet Valu shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 95.4% of CCL Industries shares are owned 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PET or CCL.A?

CCL Industries received 64 more outperform votes than Pet Valu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.07% of users gave CCL Industries an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Pet Valu an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pet Valu	Outperform Votes 3 42.86%	Underperform Votes 4 57.14%
CCL Industries	Outperform Votes 67 69.07%	Underperform Votes 30 30.93%

Summary

Pet Valu beats CCL Industries on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.