RPI.UN vs. CAS, IPLP, SXP, IFX, NEXE, GDNP, PRH, IP, CCL.B, and CCL.A
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), IPL Plastics Inc. (IPLP.TO) (IPLP), Supremex (SXP), Imaflex (IFX), NEXE Innovations (NEXE), good natured Products (GDNP), Pearl River (PRH), Imagination Park Entertainment (IP), CCL Industries (CCL.B), and CCL Industries (CCL.A). These companies are all part of the "packaging & containers" industry.
Richards Packaging Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
Cascades (TSE:CAS) and Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSE:RPI.UN) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
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.
Cascades currently has a consensus target price of C$11.33, suggesting a potential upside of 14.02%. Richards Packaging Income Fund has a consensus target price of C$43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.80%. Given Richards Packaging Income Fund's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Richards Packaging Income Fund is more favorable than Cascades.
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.
7.8% of Cascades shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.7% 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cascades pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays an annual dividend of C$1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Cascades pays out -600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Richards Packaging Income Fund pays out 60.3% 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.
Cascades has a beta of 1.079841, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Richards Packaging Income Fund has a beta of 0.706124, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cascades had 21 more articles in the media than Richards Packaging Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Cascades and 1 mentions for Richards Packaging Income Fund. Cascades' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Richards Packaging Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Cascades is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Richards Packaging Income Fund beats Cascades on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:RPI.UN) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
