SCL vs. NGVT, CDE, AG, ANDE, IAG, ERO, WS, SAND, MTRN, and FSM
Should you be buying Stepan stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stepan include Ingevity (NGVT), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), Andersons (ANDE), IAMGOLD (IAG), Ero Copper (ERO), Worthington Steel (WS), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Materion (MTRN), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Stepan (NYSE:SCL) and Ingevity (NYSE:NGVT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Ingevity received 132 more outperform votes than Stepan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.39% of users gave Ingevity an outperform vote while only 55.45% of users gave Stepan an outperform vote.
Stepan currently has a consensus target price of $89.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.79%. Ingevity has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.86%. Given Ingevity's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingevity is more favorable than Stepan.
Stepan has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingevity has a beta of 1.79, meaning that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.7% of Stepan shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ingevity shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Stepan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ingevity shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Stepan has higher revenue and earnings than Ingevity. Ingevity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stepan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stepan has a net margin of 1.71% compared to Ingevity's net margin of -6.84%. Ingevity's return on equity of 18.65% beat Stepan's return on equity.
In the previous week, Stepan had 2 more articles in the media than Ingevity. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Stepan and 3 mentions for Ingevity. Ingevity's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Stepan's score of 0.22 indicating that Ingevity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ingevity beats Stepan on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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