TOY vs. TWC, ICE, IPC, DOO, ATZ, WPK, GC, ITP, RCH, and UNS
Should you be buying Spin Master stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spin Master include TWC Enterprises (TWC), Canlan Ice Sports (ICE), Iplayco (IPC), BRP (DOO), Aritzia (ATZ), Winpak (WPK), Great Canadian Gaming (GC), Intertape Polymer Group (ITP), Richelieu Hardware (RCH), and Uni-Select (UNS). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
TWC Enterprises (TSE:TWC) and Spin Master (TSE:TOY) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
0.8% of TWC Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Spin Master shares are held by institutional investors. 83.8% of TWC Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Spin Master shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
TWC Enterprises has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spin Master has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TWC Enterprises pays an annual dividend of C$0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Spin Master pays an annual dividend of C$0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. TWC Enterprises pays out 25.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spin Master pays out 38.4% 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. TWC Enterprises is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
TWC Enterprises has a net margin of 11.24% compared to TWC Enterprises' net margin of 5.05%. TWC Enterprises' return on equity of 7.63% beat Spin Master's return on equity.
Spin Master has a consensus price target of C$44.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.13%. Given TWC Enterprises' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Spin Master is more favorable than TWC Enterprises.
Spin Master received 514 more outperform votes than TWC Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.16% of users gave Spin Master an outperform vote while only 67.26% of users gave TWC Enterprises an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Spin Master had 3 more articles in the media than TWC Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Spin Master and 2 mentions for TWC Enterprises. TWC Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Spin Master's score of 0.23 indicating that Spin Master is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spin Master has higher revenue and earnings than TWC Enterprises. TWC Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spin Master, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Spin Master beats TWC Enterprises on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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