CSWI vs. FUL, SMG, AVNT, CRS, CC, KWR, SBSW, HUN, AMR, and HL
Should you be buying CSW Industrials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CSW Industrials include H.B. Fuller (FUL), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Avient (AVNT), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Chemours (CC), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Huntsman (HUN), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), and Hecla Mining (HL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
H.B. Fuller (NYSE:FUL) and CSW Industrials (NASDAQ:CSWI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
CSW Industrials has a net margin of 12.47% compared to CSW Industrials' net margin of 4.39%. H.B. Fuller's return on equity of 18.47% beat CSW Industrials' return on equity.
In the previous week, H.B. Fuller had 4 more articles in the media than CSW Industrials. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for H.B. Fuller and 1 mentions for CSW Industrials. CSW Industrials' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat H.B. Fuller's score of -1.00 indicating that H.B. Fuller is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.9% of H.B. Fuller shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of H.B. Fuller shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
H.B. Fuller currently has a consensus target price of $86.20, indicating a potential upside of 16.13%. Given CSW Industrials' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe H.B. Fuller is more favorable than CSW Industrials.
H.B. Fuller received 71 more outperform votes than CSW Industrials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.02% of users gave CSW Industrials an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave H.B. Fuller an outperform vote.
H.B. Fuller has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSW Industrials has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H.B. Fuller pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. CSW Industrials pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. H.B. Fuller pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSW Industrials pays out 13.5% 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. H.B. Fuller has increased its dividend for 56 consecutive years and CSW Industrials has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. H.B. Fuller is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
H.B. Fuller has higher revenue and earnings than CSW Industrials. H.B. Fuller is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSW Industrials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
H.B. Fuller beats CSW Industrials on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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