CALM vs. SLVM, EGO, TROX, OR, MP, MTX, SXT, IOSP, KWR, and TFPM
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include Sylvamo (SLVM), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Tronox (TROX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), MP Materials (MP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Quaker Chemical (KWR), and Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM) and Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Sylvamo has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.02, indicating that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sylvamo presently has a consensus price target of $62.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.81%. Cal-Maine Foods has a consensus price target of $52.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.76%. Given Sylvamo's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cal-Maine Foods is more favorable than Sylvamo.
Cal-Maine Foods received 273 more outperform votes than Sylvamo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Sylvamo an outperform vote.
Cal-Maine Foods has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sylvamo. Cal-Maine Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sylvamo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sylvamo had 7 more articles in the media than Cal-Maine Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sylvamo and 2 mentions for Cal-Maine Foods. Sylvamo's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Cal-Maine Foods' score of 0.64 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to Cal-Maine Foods' net margin of 5.40%. Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity of 24.67% beat Sylvamo's return on equity.
Sylvamo pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $3.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Sylvamo pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 70.7% 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 and Cal-Maine Foods has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
91.2% of Sylvamo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Sylvamo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Cal-Maine Foods beats Sylvamo on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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