KALU vs. NX, TG, CSTM, WIRE, APOG, CDRE, CMCO, NSSC, HY, and HLIO
Should you be buying Kaiser Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kaiser Aluminum include Quanex Building Products (NX), Tredegar (TG), Constellium (CSTM), Encore Wire (WIRE), Apogee Enterprises (APOG), Cadre (CDRE), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), and Helios Technologies (HLIO).
Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) and Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Quanex Building Products pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Kaiser Aluminum pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Quanex Building Products pays out 12.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kaiser Aluminum pays out 105.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quanex Building Products currently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.88%. Kaiser Aluminum has a consensus price target of $71.50, indicating a potential downside of 19.99%. Given Kaiser Aluminum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Quanex Building Products is more favorable than Kaiser Aluminum.
Quanex Building Products has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kaiser Aluminum. Quanex Building Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaiser Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Quanex Building Products received 45 more outperform votes than Kaiser Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.40% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 57.32% of users gave Kaiser Aluminum an outperform vote.
Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Quanex Building Products' net margin of 1.53%. Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity of 17.11% beat Quanex Building Products' return on equity.
In the previous week, Kaiser Aluminum had 1 more articles in the media than Quanex Building Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum and 7 mentions for Quanex Building Products. Kaiser Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Quanex Building Products' score of 0.80 indicating that Quanex Building Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Quanex Building Products beats Kaiser Aluminum on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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