ICL vs. SMG, MOS, CF, NTR, WFG, KGC, OLN, ATI, CMC, and NEU
Should you be buying ICL Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICL Group include Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Mosaic (MOS), CF Industries (CF), Nutrien (NTR), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Kinross Gold (KGC), Olin (OLN), ATI (ATI), Commercial Metals (CMC), and NewMarket (NEU). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) and ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
ICL Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICL Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scotts Miracle-Gro currently has a consensus target price of $69.29, indicating a potential upside of 2.55%. ICL Group has a consensus target price of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Scotts Miracle-Gro's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ICL Group is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
In the previous week, ICL Group had 3 more articles in the media than Scotts Miracle-Gro. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ICL Group and 7 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro. ICL Group's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's score of 0.35 indicating that Scotts Miracle-Gro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scotts Miracle-Gro received 109 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.63% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote while only 54.69% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICL Group has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ICL Group has a net margin of 8.65% compared to ICL Group's net margin of -11.52%. Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity of 12.04% beat ICL Group's return on equity.
70.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of ICL Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ICL Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scotts Miracle-Gro pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. ICL Group pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays out -37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ICL Group pays out 37.3% 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. Scotts Miracle-Gro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Scotts Miracle-Gro beats ICL Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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