KALU vs. CENX, ARNC, CSTM, AA, WIRE, NX, TG, HWM, MLI, and SEE
Should you be buying Kaiser Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kaiser Aluminum include Century Aluminum (CENX), Arconic (ARNC), Constellium (CSTM), Alcoa (AA), Encore Wire (WIRE), Quanex Building Products (NX), Tredegar (TG), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Mueller Industries (MLI), and Sealed Air (SEE).
Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Century Aluminum has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 1.85%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 8.40% beat Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity.
61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Century Aluminum currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential downside of 24.10%. Kaiser Aluminum has a consensus target price of $77.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.40%. Given Century Aluminum's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kaiser Aluminum is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
In the previous week, Century Aluminum had 2 more articles in the media than Kaiser Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Century Aluminum and 1 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Kaiser Aluminum's score of 0.88 indicating that Kaiser Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kaiser Aluminum has higher revenue and earnings than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaiser Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.57, suggesting that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Century Aluminum received 75 more outperform votes than Kaiser Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.29% of users gave Kaiser Aluminum an outperform vote while only 51.00% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
Summary
Kaiser Aluminum beats Century Aluminum on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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