ICL vs. CF, MOS, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, AVD, CGA, EVGN, SNES, and NITO
Should you be buying ICL Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICL Group include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), American Vanguard (AVD), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), SenesTech (SNES), and N2OFF (NITO). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
ICL Group currently has a consensus target price of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 21.56%. CF Industries has a consensus target price of $85.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.61%. Given ICL Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ICL Group is more favorable than CF Industries.
CF Industries received 550 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to ICL Group's net margin of 6.68%. CF Industries' return on equity of 14.08% beat ICL Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, CF Industries had 5 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CF Industries and 2 mentions for ICL Group. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat ICL Group's score of 0.60 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.4% of ICL Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ICL Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ICL Group pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. ICL Group pays out 51.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
CF Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ICL Group. ICL Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICL Group has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CF Industries beats ICL Group on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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