DITHF vs. SOMMY, MXCHY, TYEKF, TKAMY, RPCGF, TOSCF, KCDMY, NNCHY, JFEEF, and ARKAY
Should you be buying DS Smith stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DS Smith include Sumitomo Chemical (SOMMY), Orbia Advance (MXCHY), thyssenkrupp (TYEKF), thyssenkrupp (TKAMY), RPC Group (RPCGF), Tosoh (TOSCF), Kimberly-Clark de México, S. A. B. de C. V. (KCDMY), Nissan Chemical (NNCHY), JFE (JFEEF), and Arkema (ARKAY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
DS Smith vs.
Sumitomo Chemical (OTCMKTS:SOMMY) and DS Smith (OTCMKTS:DITHF) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Sumitomo Chemical has a net margin of 3.83% compared to DS Smith's net margin of 0.00%. Sumitomo Chemical's return on equity of 4.65% beat DS Smith's return on equity.
Given DS Smith's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DS Smith is more favorable than Sumitomo Chemical.
Sumitomo Chemical has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DS Smith has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DS Smith had 1 more articles in the media than Sumitomo Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DS Smith and 1 mentions for Sumitomo Chemical. DS Smith's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Sumitomo Chemical's score of -1.00 indicating that DS Smith is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DS Smith received 33 more outperform votes than Sumitomo Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.17% of users gave Sumitomo Chemical an outperform vote while only 53.40% of users gave DS Smith an outperform vote.
Sumitomo Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than DS Smith.
Summary
DS Smith beats Sumitomo Chemical on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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DITHF vs. The Competition
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