CENX vs. AA, DNOW, GIC, HOLI, B, HLIO, UFPT, POWL, KALU, and NSSC
Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include Alcoa (AA), DNOW (DNOW), Global Industrial (GIC), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Powell Industries (POWL), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), and Napco Security Technologies (NSSC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Alcoa received 659 more outperform votes than Century Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.04% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
Century Aluminum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alcoa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 29 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Alcoa and 5 mentions for Century Aluminum. Alcoa's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Century Aluminum's score of 0.58 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Century Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alcoa has a beta of 2.47, indicating that its stock price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.71, indicating that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alcoa currently has a consensus price target of $33.54, indicating a potential downside of 6.70%. Century Aluminum has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential downside of 39.43%. Given Century Aluminum's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alcoa is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
Century Aluminum has a net margin of -2.05% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of -6.41%. Alcoa's return on equity of 5.18% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.
Summary
Century Aluminum beats Alcoa on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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