MERC vs. RYAM, MTRN, CDE, IAG, ERO, AG, SCL, HWKN, NGVT, and ANDE
Should you be buying Mercer International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercer International include Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), Materion (MTRN), Coeur Mining (CDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), Ero Copper (ERO), First Majestic Silver (AG), Stepan (SCL), Hawkins (HWKN), Ingevity (NGVT), and Andersons (ANDE). 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
68.6% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Mercer International shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Mercer International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Rayonier Advanced Materials has a beta of 2.98, indicating that its share price is 198% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercer International has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rayonier Advanced Materials had 1 more articles in the media than Mercer International. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rayonier Advanced Materials and 1 mentions for Mercer International. Rayonier Advanced Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Mercer International's score of 0.00 indicating that Mercer International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Rayonier Advanced Materials currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.97%. Mercer International has a consensus target price of $9.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.37%. Given Rayonier Advanced Materials' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mercer International is more favorable than Rayonier Advanced Materials.
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.
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.
Summary
Rayonier Advanced Materials beats Mercer International on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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