UAN vs. NTR, CF, MOS, ICL, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, AVD, CGA, and EVGN
Should you be buying CVR Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVR Partners include Nutrien (NTR), CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), ICL Group (ICL), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), American Vanguard (AVD), China Green Agriculture (CGA), and Evogene (EVGN). These companies are all part of the "agricultural chemicals" industry.
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) and CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
CVR Partners has a net margin of 14.26% compared to CVR Partners' net margin of 3.01%. Nutrien's return on equity of 26.35% beat CVR Partners' return on equity.
63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.8% of CVR Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held 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.
Nutrien received 219 more outperform votes than CVR Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.89% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave CVR Partners an outperform vote.
Nutrien has higher revenue and earnings than CVR Partners. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 6 more articles in the media than CVR Partners. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nutrien and 0 mentions for CVR Partners. CVR Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Nutrien's score of 0.00 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nutrien presently has a consensus price target of $66.33, indicating a potential upside of 19.71%. Given CVR Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CVR Partners.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Nutrien pays out 126.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CVR Partners pays out 97.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nutrien has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and CVR Partners has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CVR Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVR Partners has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nutrien beats CVR Partners on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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