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Transcontinental (TCL.B) Competitors

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C$17.70 +0.55 (+3.21%)
As of 04/17/2025 09:30 AM Eastern

TCL.B vs. Y, GCT, PNC.B, PNC.A, TS.B, GVC, LM, TCL.A, CCL.A, and ABCT

Should you be buying Transcontinental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Transcontinental include Yellow Pages (Y), GVIC Communications (GCT), Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC (PNC.B), Postmedia Network Canada (PNC.A), Torstar (TS.B), Glacier Media (GVC), Lingo Media (LM), Transcontinental (TCL.A), CCL Industries (CCL.A), and ABC Technologies (ABCT).

Transcontinental vs.

Transcontinental (TSE:TCL.B) and Yellow Pages (TSE:Y) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.

Yellow Pages received 96 more outperform votes than Transcontinental when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.25% of users gave Transcontinental an outperform vote while only 54.38% of users gave Yellow Pages an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
TranscontinentalOutperform Votes
53
66.25%
Underperform Votes
27
33.75%
Yellow PagesOutperform Votes
149
54.38%
Underperform Votes
125
45.62%

Transcontinental has higher revenue and earnings than Yellow Pages. Yellow Pages is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transcontinental, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
TranscontinentalC$2.84B0.08C$115.10MC$1.3313.31
Yellow PagesC$222.65M0.64C$34.99MC$2.534.07

84.5% of Yellow Pages shares are held by institutional investors. 94.1% of Transcontinental shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Yellow Pages shares are held by company 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.

Yellow Pages has a net margin of 15.71% compared to Transcontinental's net margin of 4.05%. Yellow Pages' return on equity of 63.35% beat Transcontinental's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Transcontinental4.05% 6.16% 4.34%
Yellow Pages 15.71%63.35%15.88%

Transcontinental pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Yellow Pages pays an annual dividend of C$1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Transcontinental pays out 67.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yellow Pages pays out 39.5% 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. Yellow Pages is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Transcontinental has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yellow Pages has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Yellow Pages had 1 more articles in the media than Transcontinental. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Yellow Pages and 0 mentions for Transcontinental. Yellow Pages' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Transcontinental's score of 0.00 indicating that Yellow Pages is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Transcontinental Neutral
Yellow Pages Positive

Summary

Yellow Pages beats Transcontinental on 11 of the 17 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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TCL.B vs. The Competition

MetricTranscontinentalPublishing IndustryCyclical SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$236.47MC$1.29BC$3.07BC$5.52B
Dividend Yield5.13%7.09%3.49%6.83%
P/E Ratio13.318.9419.8729.92
Price / Sales0.0874.7258.95567.99
Price / Cash53.2815.7130.6883.20
Price / Book0.801.323.233.53
Net IncomeC$115.10MC$59.19MC$258.86MC$300.83M
7 Day Performance7.47%3.33%1.36%3.56%
1 Month Performance-4.58%-2.42%-3.37%-2.60%
1 Year Performance24.21%5.57%1,656.72%11.55%

Transcontinental Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TCL.B
Transcontinental
N/AC$17.70
+3.2%
N/A+24.2%C$236.47MC$2.84B13.319,000News Coverage
Gap Up
Y
Yellow Pages
0.5701 of 5 stars
C$10.21
+1.6%
C$10.50
+2.8%
+5.6%C$140.55MC$222.65M4.04627
GCT
GVIC Communications
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$105.15MC$156.19M-4.93680Gap Up
PNC.B
Postmedia Network Canada Corp Class NC
N/AC$1.01
flat
N/AN/AC$99.75MC$404.05M-1.742,834Gap Down
PNC.A
Postmedia Network Canada
N/AC$0.95
flat
N/AN/AC$93.88MC$404.05M-1.642,834
TS.B
Torstar
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$60.19MC$455.51M-0.893,070Gap Down
GVC
Glacier Media
N/AC$0.15
-9.4%
N/A+100.0%C$19.01MC$146.68M-0.201,198Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LM
Lingo Media
N/AC$0.10
+11.1%
N/A+0.0%C$3.55MC$2.60M10.003,066Gap Up
TCL.A
Transcontinental
2.5072 of 5 stars
C$16.92
-2.4%
C$22.21
+31.3%
+27.5%C$1.21BC$2.84B12.729,000News Coverage
CCL.A
CCL Industries
N/AC$67.52
flat
N/AN/AC$793.36MC$6.94B17.9621,000Gap Down
ABCT
ABC Technologies
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$779.62MC$1.43B-11.82N/A

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This page (TSE:TCL.B) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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