ROOT vs. STC, CNC, PIH, KFS, AXV, MXX, ANK, BRO, AGO, and FAF
Should you be buying Roots stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roots include Sangoma Technologies (STC), Canada Nickel (CNC), 8002 (PIH.TO) (PIH), Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS.TO) (KFS), Axion Ventures (AXV), MATRRIX Energy Technologies (MXX), Angkor Resources (ANK), Barksdale Resources (BRO), Big Tree Carbon (AGO), and Fire & Flower (FAF). These companies are all part of the "insurance" industry.
Roots vs.
Sangoma Technologies (TSE:STC) and Roots (TSE:ROOT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Roots has higher revenue and earnings than Sangoma Technologies. Sangoma Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roots, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roots has a net margin of 1.11% compared to Sangoma Technologies' net margin of -2.81%. Roots' return on equity of 1.58% beat Sangoma Technologies' return on equity.
Sangoma Technologies presently has a consensus price target of C$12.50, indicating a potential upside of 78.06%. Roots has a consensus price target of C$3.25, indicating a potential upside of 38.30%. Given Sangoma Technologies' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sangoma Technologies is more favorable than Roots.
Sangoma Technologies has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roots has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.4% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.0% of Roots shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Sangoma Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Roots shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sangoma Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Roots. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sangoma Technologies and 0 mentions for Roots. Sangoma Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Roots' score of 0.00 indicating that Sangoma Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Roots received 47 more outperform votes than Sangoma Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.52% of users gave Sangoma Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.37% of users gave Roots an outperform vote.
Summary
Roots beats Sangoma Technologies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:ROOT) was last updated on 3/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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