NTR vs. CF, MOS, ICL, SMG, BIOX, AVD, CBUS, 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), American Vanguard (AVD), Cibus (CBUS), 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
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.
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, 0.5% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. 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.
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.
In the previous week, CF Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Nutrien. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for CF Industries and 6 mentions for Nutrien. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat CF Industries' score of 1.34 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nutrien currently has a consensus price target of $66.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.37%. CF Industries has a consensus price target of $85.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.05%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CF Industries.
Summary
CF Industries beats Nutrien on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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