NTR vs. CF, MOS, TECK, WPM, FNV, GOLD, STLD, CCJ, DD, and AEM
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Teck Resources (TECK), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Cameco (CCJ), DuPont de Nemours (DD), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
CF Industries has a net margin of 23.00% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 4.33%. CF Industries' return on equity of 18.44% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
Nutrien presently has a consensus target price of $67.95, suggesting a potential upside of 29.92%. CF Industries has a consensus target price of $86.47, suggesting a potential upside of 9.74%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CF Industries.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Nutrien pays out 85.4% 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 25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CF Industries had 31 more articles in the media than Nutrien. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for CF Industries and 4 mentions for Nutrien. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat CF Industries' score of 0.79 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
63.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Nutrien shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CF Industries received 377 more outperform votes than Nutrien when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.01% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 61.23% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
CF Industries beats Nutrien on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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