UAN vs. NTR, CF, MOS, ICL, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, AVD, CGA, and EVGN
Should you be buying CVR Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVR Partners include Nutrien (NTR), 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), and Evogene (EVGN). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 5 more articles in the media than CVR Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nutrien and 2 mentions for CVR Partners. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat CVR Partners' score of 0.50 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CVR Partners has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nutrien has higher revenue and earnings than CVR Partners. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
43.8% of CVR Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. CVR Partners pays out 97.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. CVR Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Nutrien received 219 more outperform votes than CVR Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.89% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave CVR Partners an outperform vote.
Nutrien has a consensus target price of $67.32, suggesting a potential upside of 14.85%. Given Nutrien's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CVR Partners.
CVR Partners has a net margin of 14.26% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 3.01%. CVR Partners' return on equity of 26.35% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
Summary
Nutrien beats CVR Partners on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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