ICL vs. CSWI, CC, TROX, PRM, PCT, ECVT, WLKP, ASIX, VHI, and LXFR
Should you be buying ICL Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICL Group include CSW Industrials (CSWI), Chemours (CC), Tronox (TROX), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), Ecovyst (ECVT), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), AdvanSix (ASIX), Valhi (VHI), and Luxfer (LXFR). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
CSW Industrials (NASDAQ:CSWI) and ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) are both mid-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.
ICL Group received 4 more outperform votes than CSW Industrials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.95% of users gave CSW Industrials an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote.
CSW Industrials has a net margin of 12.82% compared to CSW Industrials' net margin of 6.68%. ICL Group's return on equity of 18.56% beat CSW Industrials' return on equity.
ICL Group has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.60%. Given CSW Industrials' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ICL Group is more favorable than CSW Industrials.
82.8% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of ICL Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ICL Group 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.
CSW Industrials pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. ICL Group pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. CSW Industrials pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ICL Group pays out 48.6% 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.
CSW Industrials has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICL Group has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ICL Group has higher revenue and earnings than CSW Industrials. ICL Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSW Industrials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CSW Industrials had 1 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CSW Industrials and 5 mentions for ICL Group. ICL Group's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat CSW Industrials' score of -0.33 indicating that CSW Industrials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CSW Industrials beats ICL Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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