CF vs. MOS, SMG, IPI, AVD, NTR, ICL, BIOX, CBUS, CGA, and EVGN
Should you be buying CF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CF Industries include Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Intrepid Potash (IPI), American Vanguard (AVD), Nutrien (NTR), ICL Group (ICL), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), China Green Agriculture (CGA), and Evogene (EVGN).
CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Mosaic's net margin of 6.07%. CF Industries' return on equity of 14.08% beat Mosaic's return on equity.
CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Mosaic pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mosaic pays out 35.7% 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.
In the previous week, Mosaic had 1 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Mosaic and 7 mentions for CF Industries. Mosaic's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat CF Industries' score of 1.18 indicating that Mosaic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CF Industries received 95 more outperform votes than Mosaic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Mosaic an outperform vote.
CF Industries has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Mosaic has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CF Industries presently has a consensus price target of $85.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.17%. Mosaic has a consensus price target of $38.36, indicating a potential upside of 35.63%. Given Mosaic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mosaic is more favorable than CF Industries.
93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Mosaic shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Mosaic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CF Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mosaic. Mosaic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CF Industries beats Mosaic on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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