WJX vs. ADEN, DBM, RME, AAO, TIH, FTT, RUS, ARE, BAD, and SIS
Should you be buying Wajax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wajax include ADENTRA (ADEN), Doman Building Materials Group (DBM), Rocky Mountain Equipment Alberta Ltd (RME.TO) (RME), IntellaEquity (AAO), Toromont Industries (TIH), Finning International (FTT), Russel Metals (RUS), Aecon Group (ARE), Badger Daylighting (BAD), and Savaria (SIS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Wajax vs.
ADENTRA (TSE:ADEN) and Wajax (TSE:WJX) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Wajax had 4 more articles in the media than ADENTRA. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Wajax and 5 mentions for ADENTRA. ADENTRA's average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat Wajax's score of -0.10 indicating that ADENTRA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
17.2% of ADENTRA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Wajax shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of ADENTRA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Wajax shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wajax received 272 more outperform votes than ADENTRA when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.86% of users gave ADENTRA an outperform vote while only 50.55% of users gave Wajax an outperform vote.
Wajax has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADENTRA. Wajax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ADENTRA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wajax has a consensus target price of C$24.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Given Wajax's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wajax is more favorable than ADENTRA.
ADENTRA has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wajax has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wajax has a net margin of 3.32% compared to ADENTRA's net margin of 2.07%. Wajax's return on equity of 14.06% beat ADENTRA's return on equity.
ADENTRA pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Wajax pays an annual dividend of C$1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. ADENTRA pays out 21.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wajax pays out 44.7% 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.
Summary
Wajax beats ADENTRA on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:WJX) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
