SLCA vs. CMP, UUUU, LEU, IPI, HL, NGD, DQ, PRM, GPRE, and SA
Should you be buying U.S. Silica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Silica include Compass Minerals International (CMP), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Centrus Energy (LEU), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Hecla Mining (HL), New Gold (NGD), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Green Plains (GPRE), and Seabridge Gold (SA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Compass Minerals International (NYSE:CMP) and U.S. Silica (NYSE:SLCA) 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 media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
U.S. Silica received 587 more outperform votes than Compass Minerals International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.10% of users gave U.S. Silica an outperform vote while only 42.94% of users gave Compass Minerals International an outperform vote.
U.S. Silica has a net margin of 8.08% compared to U.S. Silica's net margin of -7.47%. U.S. Silica's return on equity of 22.03% beat Compass Minerals International's return on equity.
Compass Minerals International pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. U.S. Silica pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Compass Minerals International pays out -28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. U.S. Silica pays out 5.4% 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. Compass Minerals International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Compass Minerals International has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Silica has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Compass Minerals International had 9 more articles in the media than U.S. Silica. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Compass Minerals International and 1 mentions for U.S. Silica. Compass Minerals International's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat U.S. Silica's score of 0.04 indicating that U.S. Silica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.8% of Compass Minerals International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of U.S. Silica shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Compass Minerals International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of U.S. Silica shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compass Minerals International currently has a consensus price target of $31.00, indicating a potential upside of 142.76%. U.S. Silica has a consensus price target of $15.25, indicating a potential downside of 1.55%. Given U.S. Silica's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Compass Minerals International is more favorable than U.S. Silica.
U.S. Silica has higher revenue and earnings than Compass Minerals International. Compass Minerals International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Silica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
U.S. Silica beats Compass Minerals International on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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