HWKN vs. NGVT, IOSP, HUN, BCPC, ASH, SAND, WS, DQ, CDE, and IAG
Should you be buying Hawkins stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawkins include Ingevity (NGVT), Innospec (IOSP), Huntsman (HUN), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Worthington Steel (WS), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Coeur Mining (CDE), and IAMGOLD (IAG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Ingevity (NYSE:NGVT) and Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
91.6% of Ingevity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.7% of Hawkins shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ingevity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Hawkins shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingevity has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hawkins has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingevity received 160 more outperform votes than Hawkins when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.50% of users gave Ingevity an outperform vote while only 59.28% of users gave Hawkins an outperform vote.
Ingevity currently has a consensus target price of $48.75, suggesting a potential upside of 12.07%. Hawkins has a consensus target price of $74.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.94%. Given Hawkins' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingevity is more favorable than Hawkins.
Hawkins has a net margin of 7.91% compared to Hawkins' net margin of -0.32%. Hawkins' return on equity of 20.75% beat Ingevity's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hawkins had 7 more articles in the media than Ingevity. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hawkins and 3 mentions for Ingevity. Hawkins' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Ingevity's score of 0.28 indicating that Ingevity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hawkins has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ingevity. Ingevity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawkins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hawkins beats Ingevity on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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