SLVM vs. MATV, CALM, MP, MTX, OR, HBM, TROX, EGO, HL, and IOSP
Should you be buying Sylvamo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sylvamo include Mativ (MATV), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), MP Materials (MP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Tronox (TROX), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Hecla Mining (HL), and Innospec (IOSP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM) and Mativ (NYSE:MATV) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Sylvamo presently has a consensus price target of $62.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.05%. Given Sylvamo's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sylvamo is more favorable than Mativ.
Sylvamo received 6 more outperform votes than Mativ when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Mativ an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Sylvamo an outperform vote.
Sylvamo pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Mativ pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Sylvamo pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mativ pays out -6.6% 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. Mativ is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Sylvamo has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mativ has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sylvamo has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Mativ's net margin of -15.56%. Sylvamo's return on equity of 24.67% beat Mativ's return on equity.
91.2% of Sylvamo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Mativ shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Sylvamo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Mativ shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sylvamo had 5 more articles in the media than Mativ. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Sylvamo and 15 mentions for Mativ. Sylvamo's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Mativ's score of 0.30 indicating that Sylvamo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sylvamo has higher revenue and earnings than Mativ. Mativ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sylvamo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sylvamo beats Mativ on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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