Transcontinental Incorporated operates within the Corrugated & solid fiber boxes sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Transcontinental Incorporated with three other manufacturers of paperboard containers and boxes in North America: Ranpak Holdings Corp of UNITED STATES (2020 sales of $298.20 million of which 42% was Cushioning machines), Sonoco Products Co of UNITED STATES ($5.24 billion of which 46% was Consumer Packaging), and Cascades Inc (5.16 billion Canadian Dollars [US$4.25 billion] of which 37% was Containerboard).

Sales Analysis. During the second fiscal quarter of 2021, sales at Transcontinental Incorporated totalled C$623.30 million. This is a drop of 0.3% from the C$625.10 million in sales at the company during the second quarter in 2020. During the first two fiscal quarters of 2021, sales totalled C$1.25 billion, which is 6.4% lower than through the first two quarters of 2020. During the previous 8 quarters, sales at Transcontinental Incorporated have fallen vis-à-vis the same quarter in the previous year. There appears to be at least some degree of seasonality in the sales at Transcontinental Incorporated: during 8 of the previous 9 fiscal years, sales were highest during the fourth quarter. The exception to this was during 2020, when the first quarter was the best quarter, accounting for 27% of sales (during that same year, the fourth quarter accounted for 25% of sales). During the year ended October of 2020, sales at Transcontinental Incorporated were C$2.57 billion (US$2.12 billion). This is a decrease of 15.3% versus 2019, when the company's sales were C$3.04 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 31.7% decline in Other-Media, from C$83.80 million to C$57.20 million. There were also decreases in sales in Packaging (down 12.3% to C$1.42 billion) and Printing (down 17.8% to C$1.10 billion) .