HWKN vs. NGVT, PRM, IOSP, CC, HUN, ASH, OLN, SAND, WS, and DQ
Should you be buying Hawkins stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawkins include Ingevity (NGVT), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Innospec (IOSP), Chemours (CC), Huntsman (HUN), Ashland (ASH), Olin (OLN), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Worthington Steel (WS), and Daqo New Energy (DQ). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) and Ingevity (NYSE:NGVT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Hawkins currently has a consensus price target of $74.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.93%. Ingevity has a consensus price target of $51.40, indicating a potential upside of 1.26%. Given Ingevity's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingevity is more favorable than Hawkins.
Hawkins has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingevity has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawkins has a net margin of 7.91% compared to Ingevity's net margin of -0.32%. Ingevity's return on equity of 20.75% beat Hawkins' return on equity.
Ingevity received 161 more outperform votes than Hawkins when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.56% of users gave Ingevity an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave Hawkins an outperform vote.
Hawkins has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ingevity. Ingevity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawkins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hawkins had 7 more articles in the media than Ingevity. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hawkins and 8 mentions for Ingevity. Ingevity's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Hawkins' score of 0.05 indicating that Ingevity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.7% of Hawkins shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ingevity shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Hawkins shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ingevity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hawkins beats Ingevity on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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