KNF vs. SQM, SUM, MDU, HL, USLM, SLCA, UUUU, LEU, CMP, and IPI
Should you be buying Knife River stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knife River include Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Summit Materials (SUM), MDU Resources Group (MDU), Hecla Mining (HL), United States Lime & Minerals (USLM), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Centrus Energy (LEU), Compass Minerals International (CMP), and Intrepid Potash (IPI). These companies are all part of the "mining & quarrying of nonmetallic minerals, except fuels" industry.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) and Knife River (NYSE:KNF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has a net margin of 6.25% compared to Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's net margin of 6.19%. Knife River's return on equity of 30.74% beat Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's return on equity.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile received 362 more outperform votes than Knife River when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Knife River an outperform vote while only 56.44% of users gave Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile an outperform vote.
12.4% of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Knife River shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Knife River shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile presently has a consensus target price of $64.98, indicating a potential upside of 39.14%. Knife River has a consensus target price of $76.20, indicating a potential upside of 7.76%. Given Knife River's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is more favorable than Knife River.
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile has higher revenue and earnings than Knife River. Knife River is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile had 16 more articles in the media than Knife River. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile and 3 mentions for Knife River. Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Knife River's score of 0.80 indicating that Knife River is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile beats Knife River on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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