SMG vs. CF, MOS, IPI, AVD, ICL, BIOX, CBUS, CGA, EVGN, and SNES
Should you be buying Scotts Miracle-Gro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scotts Miracle-Gro include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Intrepid Potash (IPI), American Vanguard (AVD), ICL Group (ICL), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), and SenesTech (SNES).
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Scotts Miracle-Gro currently has a consensus price target of $73.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.75%. CF Industries has a consensus price target of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.61%. Given CF Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CF Industries is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Scotts Miracle-Gro pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays out -42.3% 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. Scotts Miracle-Gro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Scotts Miracle-Gro's net margin of -10.14%. CF Industries' return on equity of 14.08% beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity.
In the previous week, Scotts Miracle-Gro had 4 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro and 7 mentions for CF Industries. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's score of 0.17 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CF Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CF Industries received 439 more outperform votes than Scotts Miracle-Gro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 54.49% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
Summary
CF Industries beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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