WEF vs. PL, ADN, GDL, GFP, CFF, EVA, WFG, SJ, CFP, and IFP
Should you be buying Western Forest Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Forest Products include Pinnacle Renewable Energy (PL), Acadian Timber (ADN), Goodfellow (GDL), GreenFirst Forest Products (GFP), Conifex Timber (CFF), Enviva (EVA), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Stella-Jones (SJ), Canfor (CFP), and Interfor (IFP). These companies are all part of the "lumber & wood production" industry.
Pinnacle Renewable Energy (TSE:PL) and Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Western Forest Products received 355 more outperform votes than Pinnacle Renewable Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.28% of users gave Western Forest Products an outperform vote while only 62.69% of users gave Pinnacle Renewable Energy an outperform vote.
Pinnacle Renewable Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Western Forest Products. Western Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle Renewable Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Western Forest Products had 1 more articles in the media than Pinnacle Renewable Energy. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Western Forest Products and 0 mentions for Pinnacle Renewable Energy. Western Forest Products' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Pinnacle Renewable Energy's score of -0.99 indicating that Pinnacle Renewable Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Forest Products has a consensus target price of C$0.71, suggesting a potential upside of 43.43%.
50.0% of Western Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Western Forest Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pinnacle Renewable Energy pays an annual dividend of C$0.26 per share. Western Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Pinnacle Renewable Energy pays out -173.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Forest Products pays out -26.3% 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.
Pinnacle Renewable Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Pinnacle Renewable Energy's net margin of -5.96%. Western Forest Products' return on equity of 0.00% beat Pinnacle Renewable Energy's return on equity.
Summary
Western Forest Products beats Pinnacle Renewable Energy on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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