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AVD vs. IPI, CF, MOS, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, ENFY, NITO, EVGN, and SNES

Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include Intrepid Potash (IPI), CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), Enlightify (ENFY), N2OFF (NITO), Evogene (EVGN), and SenesTech (SNES).

American Vanguard vs.

American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) and Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

American Vanguard presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 228.33%. Intrepid Potash has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential downside of 47.56%. Given American Vanguard's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
American Vanguard
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Intrepid Potash
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
American Vanguard$553.84M0.22$7.52M-$1.03-4.14
Intrepid Potash$273.17M1.77-$35.67M-$15.89-2.28

In the previous week, Intrepid Potash had 2 more articles in the media than American Vanguard. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Intrepid Potash and 3 mentions for American Vanguard. American Vanguard's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Intrepid Potash's score of 0.53 indicating that American Vanguard is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
American Vanguard
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Intrepid Potash
1 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

American Vanguard has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intrepid Potash has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Intrepid Potash received 11 more outperform votes than American Vanguard when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.83% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote while only 49.67% of users gave Intrepid Potash an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
American VanguardOutperform Votes
292
60.83%
Underperform Votes
188
39.17%
Intrepid PotashOutperform Votes
303
49.67%
Underperform Votes
307
50.33%

American Vanguard has a net margin of -5.22% compared to Intrepid Potash's net margin of -16.86%. Intrepid Potash's return on equity of -1.32% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
American Vanguard-5.22% -3.45% -1.57%
Intrepid Potash -16.86%-1.32%-1.14%

79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

American Vanguard beats Intrepid Potash on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AVD vs. The Competition

MetricAmerican VanguardAgricultural chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$122.75M$4.91B$3.08B$19.30B
Dividend Yield0.73%3.84%5.20%3.83%
P/E Ratio-4.1438.7369.2634.53
Price / Sales0.224.3525,591,212,775,274,500.0034.84
Price / Cash4.857.3124.3417.51
Price / Book0.331.035.214.69
Net Income$7.52M$314.10M$156.48M$1.02B
7 Day Performance4.00%-2.78%2.55%-2.43%
1 Month Performance0.09%15.20%5.12%6.27%
1 Year Performance-51.55%-29.95%18.67%5.78%

American Vanguard Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AVD
American Vanguard
2.9254 of 5 stars
$4.26
+0.3%
$14.00
+228.3%
-53.4%$122.75M$553.84M-4.14800Positive News
IPI
Intrepid Potash
1.3998 of 5 stars
$35.58
-6.6%
$19.00
-46.6%
+34.8%$473.85M$273.17M-10.62440Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
CF
CF Industries
3.9312 of 5 stars
$84.22
+2.2%
$89.93
+6.8%
+11.6%$14.28B$6.13B12.442,700News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
MOS
Mosaic
4.0469 of 5 stars
$32.93
+0.8%
$32.75
-0.6%
+10.3%$10.44B$11.06B29.1413,600Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SMG
Scotts Miracle-Gro
4.1759 of 5 stars
$57.01
+5.6%
$65.50
+14.9%
-8.4%$3.29B$3.45B-118.766,100Analyst Revision
Gap Up
BIOX
Bioceres Crop Solutions
3.2234 of 5 stars
$4.65
-1.3%
$8.63
+85.5%
-59.1%$291.61M$407.73M232.62500Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
CBUS
Cibus
1.6169 of 5 stars
$2.43
+13.6%
$22.00
+805.3%
-82.6%$79.83M$4.26M-0.1148
ENFY
Enlightify
N/A$1.01
+1.0%
N/AN/A$16.28M$87.36M-0.50424
NITO
N2OFF
0.8027 of 5 stars
$0.40
-9.5%
N/A-69.3%$7.16M$210,000.000.002Gap Down
EVGN
Evogene
1.8555 of 5 stars
$1.14
+0.7%
$12.00
+952.6%
-84.0%$6.12M$8.51M-0.26140News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
SNES
SenesTech
1.4448 of 5 stars
$2.78
+2.6%
$10.00
+259.7%
-66.5%$4.94M$1.86M-0.2830Analyst Forecast

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