CALM vs. TROX, SLVM, MP, OR, EGO, HL, HBM, IOSP, MTRN, and MTX
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include Tronox (TROX), Sylvamo (SLVM), MP Materials (MP), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Hecla Mining (HL), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Innospec (IOSP), Materion (MTRN), and Minerals Technologies (MTX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Tronox (NYSE:TROX) and Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $3.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Tronox pays out -22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 70.7% 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. Cal-Maine Foods has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Cal-Maine Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cal-Maine Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cal-Maine Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
73.4% of Tronox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Tronox shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tronox presently has a consensus price target of $16.29, suggesting a potential downside of 15.27%. Cal-Maine Foods has a consensus price target of $52.50, suggesting a potential downside of 8.02%. Given Tronox's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cal-Maine Foods is more favorable than Tronox.
Tronox has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tronox had 16 more articles in the media than Cal-Maine Foods. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Tronox and 4 mentions for Cal-Maine Foods. Tronox's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Cal-Maine Foods' score of 0.20 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cal-Maine Foods received 32 more outperform votes than Tronox when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.24% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to Cal-Maine Foods' net margin of -11.93%. Tronox's return on equity of 16.79% beat Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity.
Summary
Cal-Maine Foods beats Tronox on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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