AA vs. CSTM, ARNC, 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 Constellium (CSTM), Arconic (ARNC), 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.
Constellium (NYSE:CSTM) and Alcoa (NYSE:AA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
Alcoa received 647 more outperform votes than Constellium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.45% of users gave Constellium an outperform vote while only 67.06% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote.
92.6% of Constellium shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Constellium shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Constellium has a net margin of 1.73% compared to Constellium's net margin of -6.41%. Alcoa's return on equity of 15.68% beat Constellium's return on equity.
Constellium presently has a consensus target price of $25.40, indicating a potential upside of 17.21%. Alcoa has a consensus target price of $35.04, indicating a potential downside of 20.85%. Given Alcoa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Constellium is more favorable than Alcoa.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 6 more articles in the media than Constellium. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alcoa and 1 mentions for Constellium. Alcoa's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Constellium's score of 0.28 indicating that Constellium is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Constellium has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcoa has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Constellium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alcoa. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Constellium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Constellium beats Alcoa on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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