AA vs. ARNC, CSTM, CENX, KALU, ROK, DOV, BALL, AXON, HUBB, and TS
Should you be buying Alcoa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alcoa include Arconic (ARNC), Constellium (CSTM), Century Aluminum (CENX), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Rockwell Automation (ROK), Dover (DOV), Ball (BALL), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Hubbell (HUBB), and Tenaris (TS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Arconic (NYSE:ARNC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Arconic has a net margin of -3.12% compared to Alcoa's net margin of -6.41%. Arconic's return on equity of 8.18% beat Alcoa's return on equity.
Alcoa has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its share price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arconic has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.4% of Alcoa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Arconic shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Alcoa shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Arconic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alcoa received 697 more outperform votes than Arconic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.06% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 54.87% of users gave Arconic an outperform vote.
Arconic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Arconic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alcoa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alcoa presently has a consensus price target of $35.04, suggesting a potential downside of 14.88%. Given Alcoa's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alcoa is more favorable than Arconic.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 5 more articles in the media than Arconic. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Alcoa and 0 mentions for Arconic. Arconic's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Alcoa's score of 0.81 indicating that Arconic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alcoa beats Arconic on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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