CCJ vs. CE, RS, WLK, SUZ, WPM, CF, MT, FNV, TECK, and BG
Should you be buying Cameco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cameco include Celanese (CE), Reliance (RS), Westlake (WLK), Suzano (SUZ), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), CF Industries (CF), ArcelorMittal (MT), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Teck Resources (TECK), and Bunge Global (BG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Celanese (NYSE:CE) and Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Celanese has a net margin of 17.92% compared to Celanese's net margin of 13.97%. Cameco's return on equity of 14.61% beat Celanese's return on equity.
Celanese presently has a consensus price target of $144.28, suggesting a potential downside of 16.05%. Cameco has a consensus price target of $35.33, suggesting a potential downside of 18.44%. Given Cameco's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Celanese is more favorable than Cameco.
Celanese pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cameco pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Celanese pays out 15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cameco pays out 15.0% 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.
98.9% of Celanese shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Cameco shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Celanese shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Cameco shares are owned by 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.
Celanese has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cameco has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cameco had 8 more articles in the media than Celanese. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Cameco and 13 mentions for Celanese. Cameco's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Celanese's score of 0.54 indicating that Celanese is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Celanese has higher revenue and earnings than Cameco. Celanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cameco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Celanese received 154 more outperform votes than Cameco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.86% of users gave Celanese an outperform vote while only 62.84% of users gave Cameco an outperform vote.
Summary
Celanese beats Cameco on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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