SMG vs. CF, MOS, IPI, AVD, ICL, BIOX, CBUS, CGA, EVGN, and SNES
Should you be buying Scotts Miracle-Gro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scotts Miracle-Gro include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Intrepid Potash (IPI), American Vanguard (AVD), ICL Group (ICL), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), China Green Agriculture (CGA), Evogene (EVGN), and SenesTech (SNES).
CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
CF Industries has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to CF Industries' net margin of -10.14%. Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity of 14.08% beat CF Industries' return on equity.
CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays out -42.3% 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. CF Industries has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Scotts Miracle-Gro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CF Industries currently has a consensus target price of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.96%. Scotts Miracle-Gro has a consensus target price of $73.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.08%. Given Scotts Miracle-Gro's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CF Industries is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Scotts Miracle-Gro had 6 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro and 7 mentions for CF Industries. Scotts Miracle-Gro's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat CF Industries' score of 0.77 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CF Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CF Industries received 439 more outperform votes than Scotts Miracle-Gro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 54.49% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
Summary
CF Industries beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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