Roots (ROOT) Competitors

Roots (TSE:ROOT) and Canada Nickel (CVE:CNC) 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 profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, ROOT or CNC?

Roots has higher revenue and earnings than Canada Nickel. Canada Nickel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roots, 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
Roots	C$261.62M	0.36	C$2.89M	C$0.07	32.42
Canada Nickel	N/A	N/A	-C$8.66M	-C$0.05	-19.14

Does the media favor ROOT or CNC?

In the previous week, Roots' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Canada Nickel'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Roots	Neutral
Canada Nickel	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, ROOT or CNC?

Roots has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canada Nickel has a beta of 2.31, meaning that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in ROOT or CNC?

51.0% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Canada Nickel shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.2% of Roots shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of Canada Nickel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ROOT or CNC?

Roots received 164 more outperform votes than Canada Nickel when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote while only 56.10% of users gave Canada Nickel an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Roots	Outperform Votes 187 59.37%	Underperform Votes 128 40.63%
Canada Nickel	Outperform Votes 23 56.10%	Underperform Votes 18 43.90%

Is ROOT or CNC more profitable?

Roots has a net margin of 1.11% compared to Canada Nickel's net margin of 0.00%. Roots' return on equity of 1.58% beat Canada Nickel's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Roots	1.11%	1.58%	2.29%
Canada Nickel	N/A	-4.74%	-3.82%

Summary

Roots beats Canada Nickel on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.