SLVM vs. MATV, MTX, TROX, MTRN, HBM, ERO, AG, ANDE, SXT, and SCL
Should you be buying Sylvamo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sylvamo include Mativ (MATV), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Tronox (TROX), Materion (MTRN), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Ero Copper (ERO), First Majestic Silver (AG), Andersons (ANDE), Sensient Technologies (SXT), and Stepan (SCL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Mativ (NYSE:MATV) and Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Mativ pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Sylvamo pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Mativ pays out -7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sylvamo pays out 20.3% 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. Sylvamo has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Mativ is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mativ has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sylvamo has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sylvamo has a consensus price target of $58.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.66%. Given Mativ's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sylvamo is more favorable than Mativ.
95.0% of Mativ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Sylvamo shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Mativ shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Sylvamo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sylvamo had 1 more articles in the media than Mativ. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sylvamo and 2 mentions for Mativ. Mativ's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Sylvamo's score of 0.33 indicating that Sylvamo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sylvamo has a net margin of 6.77% compared to Sylvamo's net margin of -13.47%. Mativ's return on equity of 32.81% beat Sylvamo's return on equity.
Sylvamo has higher revenue and earnings than Mativ. Mativ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sylvamo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sylvamo received 6 more outperform votes than Mativ when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Mativ an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Sylvamo an outperform vote.
Summary
Sylvamo beats Mativ on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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