NTR vs. CSWI, CC, TROX, PRM, PCT, ECVT, WLKP, ASIX, VHI, and LXFR
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien 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 Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Nutrien has higher revenue and earnings than CSW Industrials. Nutrien 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, Nutrien had 1 more articles in the media than CSW Industrials. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nutrien and 6 mentions for CSW Industrials. CSW Industrials' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Nutrien's score of 0.48 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nutrien has a consensus price target of $65.39, suggesting a potential upside of 27.66%. Given CSW Industrials' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CSW Industrials.
82.8% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of CSW Industrials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CSW Industrials has a net margin of 12.82% compared to CSW Industrials' net margin of 3.01%. Nutrien's return on equity of 18.56% beat CSW Industrials' return on equity.
Nutrien received 182 more outperform votes than CSW Industrials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.95% of users gave CSW Industrials an outperform vote while only 62.87% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote.
CSW Industrials pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. CSW Industrials pays out 12.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien pays out 126.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
CSW Industrials has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CSW Industrials and Nutrien tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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