ANDE vs. ERO, SCL, AG, CDE, MTX, NGVT, IAG, WS, MTRN, and HWKN
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Ero Copper (ERO), Stepan (SCL), First Majestic Silver (AG), Coeur Mining (CDE), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Ingevity (NGVT), IAMGOLD (IAG), Worthington Steel (WS), Materion (MTRN), and Hawkins (HWKN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Ero Copper has a net margin of 21.71% compared to Ero Copper's net margin of 0.69%. Andersons' return on equity of 13.16% beat Ero Copper's return on equity.
Ero Copper currently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.69%. Andersons has a consensus price target of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.13%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Andersons.
In the previous week, Andersons had 6 more articles in the media than Ero Copper. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Andersons and 13 mentions for Ero Copper. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Andersons' score of 0.40 indicating that Andersons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Andersons received 297 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.82% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote while only 16.67% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
Ero Copper has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Ero Copper. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Andersons beats Ero Copper on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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