CENX vs. KALU, AA, GTLS, MLI, ADT, FLS, ESAB, TKR, SON, and CWST
Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Alcoa (AA), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), ADT (ADT), Flowserve (FLS), ESAB (ESAB), Timken (TKR), Sonoco Products (SON), and Casella Waste Systems (CWST). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Century Aluminum has a net margin of 10.72% compared to Kaiser Aluminum's net margin of 1.85%. Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity of 8.40% beat Century Aluminum's return on equity.
Century Aluminum currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 34.53%. Kaiser Aluminum has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.27%. Given Kaiser Aluminum's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kaiser Aluminum is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Century Aluminum had 2 more articles in the media than Kaiser Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Century Aluminum and 4 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum. Kaiser Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Century Aluminum's score of 0.82 indicating that Kaiser Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kaiser Aluminum has higher revenue and earnings than Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaiser Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.67, suggesting that its share price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Century Aluminum received 75 more outperform votes than Kaiser Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.29% of users gave Kaiser Aluminum an outperform vote while only 51.00% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
Summary
Kaiser Aluminum beats Century Aluminum on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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