CENX vs. KALU, AA, FLS, GTLS, ESAB, TKR, SON, CWST, ATKR, and ZWS
Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Alcoa (AA), Flowserve (FLS), Chart Industries (GTLS), ESAB (ESAB), Timken (TKR), Sonoco Products (SON), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Atkore (ATKR), and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Kaiser Aluminum has higher revenue and earnings than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaiser Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.67, meaning that its share price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500.
99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Aluminum both had 5 articles in the media. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Kaiser Aluminum's score of 0.82 indicating that Kaiser Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Century Aluminum has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 1.85%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 8.40% beat Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity.
Kaiser Aluminum presently has a consensus target price of $77.00, indicating a potential downside of 21.27%. Century Aluminum has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 34.53%. Given Century Aluminum's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kaiser Aluminum is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
Century Aluminum received 75 more outperform votes than Kaiser Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.29% of users gave Kaiser Aluminum an outperform vote while only 51.00% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
Summary
Kaiser Aluminum beats Century Aluminum on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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