RPI.UN vs. CAS, CCL.A, IPLP, SXP, IFX, NEXE, GDNP, PRH, IP, and CCL.B
Should you be buying Richards Packaging Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Richards Packaging Income Fund include Cascades (CAS), CCL Industries (CCL.A), IPL Plastics Inc. (IPLP.TO) (IPLP), Supremex (SXP), Imaflex (IFX), NEXE Innovations (NEXE), good natured Products (GDNP), Pearl River (PRH), Imagination Park Entertainment (IP), and CCL Industries (CCL.B). These companies are all part of the "packaging & containers" industry.
Richards Packaging Income Fund vs.
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSE:RPI.UN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cascades. Cascades is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Richards Packaging Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cascades had 25 more articles in the media than Richards Packaging Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Cascades and 1 mentions for Richards Packaging Income Fund. Richards Packaging Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Cascades' score of -0.16 indicating that Richards Packaging Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cascades presently has a consensus target price of C$11.90, indicating a potential upside of 33.11%. Given Cascades' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Cascades is more favorable than Richards Packaging Income Fund.
Cascades received 366 more outperform votes than Richards Packaging Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave Richards Packaging Income Fund an outperform vote while only 63.32% of users gave Cascades an outperform vote.
Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Cascades pays out -64.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays out 40.4% 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. Cascades is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Richards Packaging Income Fund has a net margin of 9.26% compared to Cascades' net margin of -1.62%. Richards Packaging Income Fund's return on equity of 21.32% beat Cascades' return on equity.
30.8% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.8% of Cascades shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Richards Packaging Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cascades has a beta of 0.15, meaning that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richards Packaging Income Fund has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Richards Packaging Income Fund beats Cascades on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:RPI.UN) was last updated on 4/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
