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NTR vs. CF, IPI, MOS, AXTA, ALTM, ESI, CSWI, AVNT, MEOH, and PCT

Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include CF Industries (CF), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Mosaic (MOS), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Element Solutions (ESI), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), and PureCycle Technologies (PCT).

Nutrien vs. Its Competitors

Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. 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. CF Industries pays out 26.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and CF Industries has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Nutrien is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

CF Industries has a net margin of 21.80% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 2.05%. CF Industries' return on equity of 17.39% beat Nutrien's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nutrien2.05% 6.08% 2.86%
CF Industries 21.80%17.39%9.82%

Nutrien currently has a consensus target price of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.54%. CF Industries has a consensus target price of $92.07, indicating a potential downside of 6.24%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CF Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nutrien
2 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.37
CF Industries
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

CF Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nutrien. CF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nutrien$25.97B1.14$674M$1.0756.96
CF Industries$5.94B2.80$1.22B$7.5912.94

Nutrien has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Nutrien had 1 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Nutrien and 15 mentions for CF Industries. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat CF Industries' score of 0.96 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nutrien
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
CF Industries
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Nutrien beats CF Industries on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NTR vs. The Competition

MetricNutrienFERTILIZERS IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$29.61B$8.76B$3.31B$20.79B
Dividend Yield3.59%3.93%5.14%3.71%
P/E Ratio56.9624.3092.7627.89
Price / Sales1.141.5631,218,733,196,606,700.0042.50
Price / Cash7.418.0923.8722.63
Price / Book1.221.746.074.57
Net Income$674M$274.92M$147.90M$988.81M
7 Day Performance0.87%-1.62%2.42%0.21%
1 Month Performance1.28%2.00%6.90%3.91%
1 Year Performance22.69%19.62%26.83%11.35%

Nutrien Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NTR
Nutrien
3.3788 of 5 stars
$60.95
+0.2%
$62.50
+2.5%
+26.0%$29.61B$25.97B56.9625,500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CF
CF Industries
4.2212 of 5 stars
$95.19
+0.6%
$92.07
-3.3%
+37.3%$16.14B$6.13B12.542,800Dividend Announcement
IPI
Intrepid Potash
1.1732 of 5 stars
$36.37
-0.7%
$19.00
-47.8%
+53.3%$484.45M$254.69M-2.29440
MOS
Mosaic
4.3742 of 5 stars
$37.68
+1.1%
$35.08
-6.9%
+33.9%$11.95B$11.12B32.4813,765Positive News
AXTA
Axalta Coating Systems
4.9204 of 5 stars
$30.19
-2.2%
$40.44
+33.9%
-10.3%$6.60B$5.28B14.7312,800
ALTM
Arcadium Lithium
N/A$5.85
+0.1%
N/A+72.9%$6.29B$1.21B73.061,470High Trading Volume
ESI
Element Solutions
4.2632 of 5 stars
$24.64
+2.7%
$25.75
+4.5%
-8.7%$5.98B$2.46B20.715,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
CSWI
CSW Industrials
2.8648 of 5 stars
$305.23
+0.2%
$347.00
+13.7%
+11.4%$5.13B$878.30M36.472,400
AVNT
Avient
4.5216 of 5 stars
$33.14
-3.7%
$46.80
+41.2%
-16.7%$3.03B$3.24B30.979,200News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
MEOH
Methanex
4.6883 of 5 stars
$33.90
-1.4%
$44.88
+32.4%
-31.8%$2.62B$3.72B11.381,415Analyst Forecast
PCT
PureCycle Technologies
1.424 of 5 stars
$14.53
+5.6%
$12.50
-14.0%
+199.0%$2.61BN/A-12.42120

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This page (NYSE:NTR) was last updated on 7/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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