CE vs. RS, SUZ, BG, GFI, WLK, CF, MT, ALB, CCJ, and SQM
Should you be buying Celanese stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celanese include Reliance (RS), Suzano (SUZ), Bunge Global (BG), Gold Fields (GFI), Westlake (WLK), CF Industries (CF), ArcelorMittal (MT), Albemarle (ALB), Cameco (CCJ), and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Reliance (NYSE:RS) and Celanese (NYSE:CE) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Reliance has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celanese has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Reliance pays an annual dividend of $4.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Celanese pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Reliance pays out 19.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Celanese pays out 15.6% 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. Reliance has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Celanese is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Celanese has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Reliance. Celanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Reliance had 37 more articles in the media than Celanese. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Reliance and 15 mentions for Celanese. Reliance's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Celanese's score of 0.48 indicating that Celanese is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Celanese received 196 more outperform votes than Reliance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.02% of users gave Reliance an outperform vote while only 63.75% of users gave Celanese an outperform vote.
79.3% of Reliance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Celanese shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Reliance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Celanese shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Celanese has a net margin of 17.92% compared to Celanese's net margin of 9.02%. Celanese's return on equity of 17.53% beat Reliance's return on equity.
Reliance currently has a consensus target price of $365.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.97%. Celanese has a consensus target price of $149.56, suggesting a potential downside of 3.37%. Given Celanese's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Reliance is more favorable than Celanese.
Summary
Reliance beats Celanese on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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