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AVD vs. CF, MOS, SMG, IPI, NL, TSE, FEAM, LIN, SHW, and ECL

Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Intrepid Potash (IPI), NL Industries (NL), Trinseo (TSE), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Linde (LIN), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), and Ecolab (ECL).

American Vanguard vs. Its Competitors

CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

CF Industries has a net margin of 21.80% compared to American Vanguard's net margin of -25.83%. CF Industries' return on equity of 17.39% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CF Industries21.80% 17.39% 9.82%
American Vanguard -25.83%-23.99%-9.66%

CF Industries currently has a consensus price target of $94.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.20%. American Vanguard has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 220.43%. Given American Vanguard's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than CF Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CF Industries
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
American Vanguard
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, CF Industries had 25 more articles in the media than American Vanguard. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for CF Industries and 1 mentions for American Vanguard. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.00 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CF Industries
21 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
American Vanguard
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

CF Industries has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of American Vanguard shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

CF Industries has higher revenue and earnings than American Vanguard. American Vanguard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CF Industries$6.13B2.58$1.22B$7.5912.30
American Vanguard$547.31M0.19-$126.34M-$4.86-0.77

Summary

CF Industries beats American Vanguard on 13 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

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AVD vs. The Competition

MetricAmerican VanguardCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$101.90M$15.75B$3.28B$21.10B
Dividend YieldN/A2.02%5.15%3.59%
P/E Ratio-0.7750.21113.9128.44
Price / Sales0.193.1730,017,513,221,212,400.0058.59
Price / CashN/A13.1323.9222.92
Price / Book0.463.116.084.69
Net Income-$126.34M$421.06M$147.58M$995.51M
7 Day Performance7.93%2.62%1.91%1.65%
1 Month Performance-0.27%5.72%6.33%4.54%
1 Year Performance-60.83%7.40%30.45%9.99%

American Vanguard Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVD
American Vanguard
2.1274 of 5 stars
$3.75
+3.7%
$12.00
+220.4%
-60.6%$101.90M$547.31M-0.77800
CF
CF Industries
4.0731 of 5 stars
$91.01
-1.8%
$93.00
+2.2%
+27.0%$15.70B$5.94B11.992,800News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MOS
Mosaic
4.1137 of 5 stars
$35.52
-2.0%
$35.58
+0.2%
+26.0%$11.50B$11.12B30.6213,765Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
SMG
Scotts Miracle-Gro
4.0152 of 5 stars
$66.85
+0.2%
$71.83
+7.5%
+1.5%$3.85B$3.55B21.586,200Upcoming Earnings
IPI
Intrepid Potash
1.3443 of 5 stars
$34.40
+0.9%
$19.00
-44.8%
+35.5%$453.84M$254.69M243.43440News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
NL
NL Industries
1.2436 of 5 stars
$6.43
-0.5%
$6.00
-6.6%
+3.9%$315.56M$145.90M5.142,820News Coverage
Positive News
TSE
Trinseo
1.3158 of 5 stars
$2.88
+2.9%
N/A+9.3%$99.82M$3.51B-0.292,950
FEAM
5E Advanced Materials
2.3606 of 5 stars
$3.74
+4.5%
$121.00
+3,135.3%
-81.1%$71.66MN/A-0.2320Positive News
LIN
Linde
3.4272 of 5 stars
$470.43
+1.2%
$518.80
+10.3%
+6.7%$218.89B$33.01B34.1665,289Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
SHW
Sherwin-Williams
4.4459 of 5 stars
$342.34
+0.7%
$391.94
+14.5%
-0.9%$85.22B$23.10B29.8163,890Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
ECL
Ecolab
4.7312 of 5 stars
$268.29
-0.2%
$288.33
+7.5%
+11.6%$76.23B$15.74B39.4148,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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