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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and risk.
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.
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.
Constellium has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcoa has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its stock price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Constellium presently has a consensus price target of $25.40, suggesting a potential upside of 28.67%. Alcoa has a consensus price target of $35.04, suggesting a potential downside of 14.34%. Given Alcoa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Constellium is more favorable than Alcoa.
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.
In the previous week, Constellium had 4 more articles in the media than Alcoa. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Constellium and 2 mentions for Alcoa. Constellium's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Alcoa's score of 1.09 indicating that Alcoa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.6% of Constellium shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Constellium shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Constellium beats Alcoa on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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