MERC vs. RYAM, ARMN, MTAL, ASIX, ODC, ZEUS, NFGC, HAYN, LEU, and MUX
Should you be buying Mercer International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercer International include Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), Aris Mining (ARMN), Metals Acquisition (MTAL), AdvanSix (ASIX), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), New Found Gold (NFGC), Haynes International (HAYN), Centrus Energy (LEU), and McEwen Mining (MUX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Rayonier Advanced Materials (NYSE:RYAM) and Mercer International (NASDAQ:MERC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Rayonier Advanced Materials presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.82%. Mercer International has a consensus price target of $9.67, suggesting a potential downside of 4.01%. Given Rayonier Advanced Materials' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mercer International is more favorable than Rayonier Advanced Materials.
In the previous week, Mercer International had 4 more articles in the media than Rayonier Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Mercer International and 2 mentions for Rayonier Advanced Materials. Mercer International's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Rayonier Advanced Materials' score of 0.62 indicating that Rayonier Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rayonier Advanced Materials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mercer International. Rayonier Advanced Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mercer International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rayonier Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Mercer International pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays out -17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mercer International pays out -8.7% 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. Rayonier Advanced Materials is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Rayonier Advanced Materials has a beta of 3.05, meaning that its stock price is 205% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercer International has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rayonier Advanced Materials has a net margin of -6.71% compared to Rayonier Advanced Materials' net margin of -11.27%. Mercer International's return on equity of -7.77% beat Rayonier Advanced Materials' return on equity.
68.6% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Mercer International shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Mercer International shares are held by company 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.
Mercer International received 80 more outperform votes than Rayonier Advanced Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.35% of users gave Rayonier Advanced Materials an outperform vote while only 54.95% of users gave Mercer International an outperform vote.
Summary
Rayonier Advanced Materials beats Mercer International on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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