WPK vs. ITP, CAS, CCL.A, IPLP, RPI.UN, SXP, IFX, NEXE, GDNP, and PRH
Should you be buying Winpak stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Winpak include Intertape Polymer Group (ITP), Cascades (CAS), CCL Industries (CCL.A), IPL Plastics Inc. (IPLP.TO) (IPLP), Richards Packaging Income Fund (RPI.UN), Supremex (SXP), Imaflex (IFX), NEXE Innovations (NEXE), good natured Products (GDNP), and Pearl River (PRH). These companies are all part of the "packaging & containers" industry.
Intertape Polymer Group (TSE:ITP) and Winpak (TSE:WPK) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Winpak has a net margin of 12.96% compared to Winpak's net margin of 0.00%. Intertape Polymer Group's return on equity of 10.82% beat Winpak's return on equity.
In the previous week, Intertape Polymer Group's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Winpak's score of 0.00 indicating that Winpak is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Winpak has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Intertape Polymer Group. Intertape Polymer Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Winpak, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intertape Polymer Group received 109 more outperform votes than Winpak when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.57% of users gave Intertape Polymer Group an outperform vote while only 62.01% of users gave Winpak an outperform vote.
28.0% of Winpak shares are held by institutional investors. 54.1% of Winpak shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Winpak has a consensus price target of C$47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.75%.
Intertape Polymer Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.67 per share. Winpak pays an annual dividend of C$0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Intertape Polymer Group pays out -360.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Winpak pays out 3.9% 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
Winpak beats Intertape Polymer Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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