NTR vs. ICL, AXTA, ALTM, ESI, CSWI, AVNT, MEOH, PRM, PCT, and NGVT
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include ICL Group (ICL), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Element Solutions (ESI), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), and Ingevity (NGVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Nutrien vs. Its Competitors
ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
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 3.6%. ICL Group pays out 51.6% 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.
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.
13.4% of ICL Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ICL Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ICL Group presently has a consensus price target of $6.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.66%. Nutrien has a consensus price target of $61.44, indicating a potential upside of 2.09%. Given ICL Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe ICL Group is more favorable than Nutrien.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 1 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nutrien and 2 mentions for ICL Group. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat ICL Group's score of 0.50 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ICL Group has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nutrien received 196 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.91% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote.
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.
Summary
Nutrien beats ICL Group on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:NTR) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
