OEC vs. CBT, HWKN, KALU, IAG, CGAU, CMP, SAND, AG, SLCA, and RYI
Should you be buying Orion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orion include Cabot (CBT), Hawkins (HWKN), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), IAMGOLD (IAG), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), First Majestic Silver (AG), U.S. Silica (SLCA), and Ryerson (RYI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Orion (NYSE:OEC) and Cabot (NYSE:CBT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Orion presently has a consensus target price of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.34%. Cabot has a consensus target price of $83.75, suggesting a potential upside of 24.70%. Given Orion's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Orion is more favorable than Cabot.
89.9% of Orion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of Cabot shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Orion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Cabot shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Orion has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cabot has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cabot has higher revenue and earnings than Orion. Orion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cabot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cabot received 112 more outperform votes than Orion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.64% of users gave Cabot an outperform vote while only 60.97% of users gave Orion an outperform vote.
Cabot has a net margin of 7.48% compared to Orion's net margin of 5.92%. Orion's return on equity of 27.96% beat Cabot's return on equity.
Orion pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cabot pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Orion pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cabot pays out 30.2% 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.
In the previous week, Orion and Orion both had 5 articles in the media. Cabot's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Orion's score of 0.73 indicating that Cabot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cabot beats Orion on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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