ANDE vs. SCL, NGVT, AG, IAG, CDE, ERO, SAND, HWKN, WS, and FSM
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Stepan (SCL), Ingevity (NGVT), First Majestic Silver (AG), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), Ero Copper (ERO), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Hawkins (HWKN), Worthington Steel (WS), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) and Stepan (NYSE:SCL) 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, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Andersons currently has a consensus target price of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.60%. Stepan has a consensus target price of $89.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.85%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Andersons is more favorable than Stepan.
Andersons has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stepan has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Stepan. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stepan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Andersons received 56 more outperform votes than Stepan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.82% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote while only 55.45% of users gave Stepan an outperform vote.
Stepan has a net margin of 1.71% compared to Andersons' net margin of 0.69%. Andersons' return on equity of 8.19% beat Stepan's return on equity.
Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Stepan pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Andersons pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stepan pays out 90.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Stepan shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Stepan shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Stepan had 11 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Stepan and 6 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Stepan's score of 0.47 indicating that Andersons is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Andersons beats Stepan on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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