ICL vs. SMG, MOS, CF, WFG, ATI, CMC, AGI, OLN, ESI, and PAAS
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), West Fraser Timber (WFG), ATI (ATI), Commercial Metals (CMC), Alamos Gold (AGI), Olin (OLN), Element Solutions (ESI), and Pan American Silver (PAAS). 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Scotts Miracle-Gro currently has a consensus target price of $70.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.32%. ICL Group has a consensus target price of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 24.32%. Given Scotts Miracle-Gro's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ICL Group is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
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.
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.
74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of ICL Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ICL Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Scotts Miracle-Gro received 110 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.63% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote while only 54.42% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
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 4.1%. 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. ICL Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. ICL Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Scotts Miracle-Gro had 3 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro and 4 mentions for ICL Group. ICL Group's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's score of 0.70 indicating that Scotts Miracle-Gro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICL Group has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ICL Group beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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