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AA vs. CENX, KALU, FCX, HBM, SCCO, TECK, CSTM, RYI, GWAV, and OTIS

Should you be buying Alcoa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alcoa include Century Aluminum (CENX), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), HudBay Minerals (HBM), Southern Copper (SCCO), Teck Resources (TECK), Constellium (CSTM), Ryerson (RYI), Greenwave Technology Solutions (GWAV), and Otis Worldwide (OTIS).

Alcoa vs. Its Competitors

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Alcoa has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.52, indicating that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Alcoa had 8 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Alcoa and 3 mentions for Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Alcoa's score of 0.76 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alcoa
5 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Century Aluminum
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Alcoa currently has a consensus price target of $42.88, suggesting a potential upside of 18.86%. Century Aluminum has a consensus price target of $28.50, suggesting a potential downside of 11.41%. Given Alcoa's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alcoa is more favorable than Century Aluminum.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alcoa
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Century Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.17

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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Century Aluminum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Century Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alcoa$11.90B0.79$60M$3.839.42
Century Aluminum$2.22B1.35$336.80M$1.1627.73

Alcoa has a net margin of 7.86% compared to Century Aluminum's net margin of 4.94%. Alcoa's return on equity of 19.18% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alcoa7.86% 19.18% 7.44%
Century Aluminum 4.94%18.02%6.21%

Summary

Century Aluminum beats Alcoa on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AA vs. The Competition

MetricAlcoaMETAL PRD IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.34B$16.57B$7.80B$21.69B
Dividend Yield1.10%2.31%4.59%3.59%
P/E Ratio9.4234.38295.5932.49
Price / Sales0.790.421,255.9080.94
Price / Cash10.048.8828.1224.53
Price / Book1.811.424.824.57
Net Income$60M$1.22B$790.12M$1.01B
7 Day Performance2.95%8.59%0.09%1.13%
1 Month Performance9.73%9.36%2.50%-0.64%
1 Year Performance-10.54%-15.20%26.95%10.38%

Alcoa Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AA
Alcoa
4.059 of 5 stars
$36.08
-2.8%
$42.88
+18.9%
-11.6%$9.34B$11.90B9.4213,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CENX
Century Aluminum
3.5235 of 5 stars
$31.96
+0.1%
$28.50
-10.8%
+83.5%$3.01B$2.43B27.842,971Gap Up
KALU
Kaiser Aluminum
3.1057 of 5 stars
$79.00
-1.3%
$82.00
+3.8%
+10.4%$1.28B$3.11B20.304,000Upcoming Earnings
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
4.7955 of 5 stars
$41.69
-0.1%
$46.56
+11.7%
-13.2%$60.03B$25.46B31.6728,500Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
HBM
HudBay Minerals
3.815 of 5 stars
$17.33
+0.1%
$19.50
+12.5%
+87.5%$6.88B$2.02B23.792,803Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
SCCO
Southern Copper
2.7424 of 5 stars
$134.96
+2.3%
$109.88
-18.6%
+17.9%$108.52B$11.89B29.5316,133Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TECK
Teck Resources
4.8581 of 5 stars
$44.46
+1.5%
$54.00
+21.4%
-12.1%$21.38B$9.96B117.137,200Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
CSTM
Constellium
3.0496 of 5 stars
$15.53
-2.4%
$16.33
+5.2%
+4.3%$2.17B$7.34B81.7912,000Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
RYI
Ryerson
1.9661 of 5 stars
$22.30
-2.8%
$25.00
+12.1%
+4.3%$719.29M$4.44B-49.644,200News Coverage
GWAV
Greenwave Technology Solutions
0.8616 of 5 stars
$9.53
-21.9%
N/A-81.1%$5.46M$33.32M0.0090Positive News
OTIS
Otis Worldwide
4.8517 of 5 stars
$91.00
-0.5%
$104.63
+15.0%
-13.8%$35.71B$14.17B24.0772,000Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision

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