BG vs. SUZ, GFI, CF, CE, ALB, RS, SQM, WRK, IP, and WLK
Should you be buying Bunge Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bunge Global include Suzano (SUZ), Gold Fields (GFI), CF Industries (CF), Celanese (CE), Albemarle (ALB), Reliance (RS), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), WestRock (WRK), International Paper (IP), and Westlake (WLK). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Suzano (NYSE:SUZ) and Bunge Global (NYSE:BG) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Suzano has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bunge Global. Suzano is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bunge Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bunge Global has a consensus price target of $121.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.78%. Given Suzano's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bunge Global is more favorable than Suzano.
Bunge Global received 472 more outperform votes than Suzano when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.18% of users gave Bunge Global an outperform vote while only 63.04% of users gave Suzano an outperform vote.
Suzano has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bunge Global has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Suzano pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Bunge Global pays an annual dividend of $2.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Suzano pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bunge Global pays out 21.3% 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. Suzano has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Bunge Global has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Bunge Global had 29 more articles in the media than Suzano. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Bunge Global and 5 mentions for Suzano. Suzano's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Bunge Global's score of -0.05 indicating that Bunge Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Suzano has a net margin of 35.19% compared to Suzano's net margin of 3.22%. Bunge Global's return on equity of 33.35% beat Suzano's return on equity.
2.6% of Suzano shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bunge Global shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Bunge Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Bunge Global beats Suzano on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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