AVD vs. UAN, VZLA, RYAM, NL, FSTR, PPTA, PLL, IPI, VHI, and DC
Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include CVR Partners (UAN), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), NL Industries (NL), L.B. Foster (FSTR), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Valhi (VHI), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
American Vanguard has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 59.29%. Given CVR Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than CVR Partners.
CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $6.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. American Vanguard pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. CVR Partners pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Vanguard pays out 44.4% 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. CVR Partners has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CVR Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
American Vanguard received 88 more outperform votes than CVR Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.26% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave CVR Partners an outperform vote.
43.8% of CVR Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of American Vanguard shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, CVR Partners had 1 more articles in the media than American Vanguard. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for CVR Partners and 1 mentions for American Vanguard. CVR Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.35 indicating that American Vanguard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CVR Partners has a net margin of 25.30% compared to CVR Partners' net margin of 1.30%. American Vanguard's return on equity of 50.45% beat CVR Partners' return on equity.
CVR Partners has higher revenue and earnings than American Vanguard. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Vanguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CVR Partners has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
CVR Partners beats American Vanguard on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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