NTR vs. CF, MOS, ICL, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, AVD, CGA, EVGN, and SNES
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), ICL Group (ICL), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), American Vanguard (AVD), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), and SenesTech (SNES). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
CF Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nutrien. CF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 2 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nutrien and 5 mentions for CF Industries. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Nutrien's score of 0.98 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nutrien currently has a consensus price target of $67.32, suggesting a potential upside of 14.85%. CF Industries has a consensus price target of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.61%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CF Industries.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 3.01%. CF Industries' return on equity of 14.08% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
CF Industries received 375 more outperform votes than Nutrien when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.89% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote.
63.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Nutrien pays out 126.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
CF Industries beats Nutrien on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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