ICL vs. NTR, AXTA, ALTM, ESI, CSWI, AVNT, MEOH, CC, PRM, and NGVT
Should you be buying ICL Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICL Group include Nutrien (NTR), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Element Solutions (ESI), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), Chemours (CC), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), and Ingevity (NGVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
ICL Group vs.
ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
ICL Group has a net margin of 5.83% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 2.62%. ICL Group's return on equity of 8.31% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
ICL Group pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. ICL Group pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien pays out 203.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nutrien has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Nutrien is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
ICL Group currently has a consensus target price of $6.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.58%. Nutrien has a consensus target price of $61.44, indicating a potential upside of 4.72%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than ICL Group.
ICL Group has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 11 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Nutrien and 16 mentions for ICL Group. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat ICL Group's score of 0.71 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nutrien received 196 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.00% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote.
13.4% of ICL Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of ICL Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nutrien has higher revenue and earnings than ICL Group. ICL Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Nutrien beats ICL Group on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ICL) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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