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).
American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) and Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) 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 media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
79.0% of American Vanguard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
American Vanguard has a net margin of 1.22% compared to Intrepid Potash's net margin of -15.95%. American Vanguard's return on equity of 2.20% beat Intrepid Potash's return on equity.
American Vanguard presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 107.61%. Intrepid Potash has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.55%. Given American Vanguard's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.
American Vanguard has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intrepid Potash has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, American Vanguard had 2 more articles in the media than Intrepid Potash. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for American Vanguard and 1 mentions for Intrepid Potash. American Vanguard's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Intrepid Potash's score of 1.47 indicating that American Vanguard is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Intrepid Potash on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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