AVD vs. IPI, CF, MOS, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, CGA, EVGN, SNES, and NITO
Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include Intrepid Potash (IPI), CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), SenesTech (SNES), and N2OFF (NITO).
Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.
American Vanguard has a net margin of 1.22% compared to American Vanguard's net margin of -15.95%. Intrepid Potash's return on equity of 2.20% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.
Intrepid Potash received 12 more outperform votes than American Vanguard when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.13% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote while only 50.25% of users gave Intrepid Potash an outperform vote.
American Vanguard has higher revenue and earnings than Intrepid Potash. Intrepid Potash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Vanguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intrepid Potash currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.28%. American Vanguard has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 107.13%. Given Intrepid Potash's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.
In the previous week, Intrepid Potash and Intrepid Potash both had 2 articles in the media. Intrepid Potash's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.03 indicating that American Vanguard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intrepid Potash has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Intrepid Potash on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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