AMR vs. CC, HUN, NXE, FUL, SMG, AVNT, CSWI, KWR, HMY, and ASH
Should you be buying Alpha Metallurgical Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Metallurgical Resources include Chemours (CC), Huntsman (HUN), NexGen Energy (NXE), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Avient (AVNT), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), and Ashland (ASH). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources (NYSE:AMR) and Chemours (NYSE:CC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemours has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chemours received 457 more outperform votes than Alpha Metallurgical Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.22% of users gave Alpha Metallurgical Resources an outperform vote while only 61.09% of users gave Chemours an outperform vote.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources currently has a consensus target price of $224.00, indicating a potential downside of 32.41%. Chemours has a consensus target price of $28.22, indicating a potential upside of 7.47%. Given Chemours' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chemours is more favorable than Alpha Metallurgical Resources.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Chemours pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chemours pays out -48.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Chemours is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chemours. Chemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Metallurgical Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources has a net margin of 20.80% compared to Chemours' net margin of -5.13%. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' return on equity of 46.22% beat Chemours' return on equity.
84.3% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Chemours shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Alpha Metallurgical Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Chemours shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Chemours had 46 more articles in the media than Alpha Metallurgical Resources. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Chemours and 4 mentions for Alpha Metallurgical Resources. Alpha Metallurgical Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Chemours' score of 0.08 indicating that Alpha Metallurgical Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alpha Metallurgical Resources beats Chemours on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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