KALU vs. NX, CSTM, TG, WIRE, DNOW, HLIO, CENX, XRX, HOLI, and NSSC
Should you be buying Kaiser Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kaiser Aluminum include Quanex Building Products (NX), Constellium (CSTM), Tredegar (TG), Encore Wire (WIRE), DNOW (DNOW), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Century Aluminum (CENX), Xerox (XRX), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), and Napco Security Technologies (NSSC).
Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) and Quanex Building Products (NYSE:NX) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanex Building Products has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kaiser Aluminum pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Quanex Building Products pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Kaiser Aluminum pays out 89.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Quanex Building Products pays out 12.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Kaiser Aluminum currently has a consensus price target of $77.00, suggesting a potential downside of 23.75%. Quanex Building Products has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.00%. Given Quanex Building Products' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Quanex Building Products is more favorable than Kaiser Aluminum.
In the previous week, Kaiser Aluminum had 2 more articles in the media than Quanex Building Products. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum and 2 mentions for Quanex Building Products. Quanex Building Products' average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Kaiser Aluminum's score of 1.18 indicating that Quanex Building Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Quanex Building Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kaiser Aluminum. Quanex Building Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaiser Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quanex Building Products received 45 more outperform votes than Kaiser Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.47% of users gave Quanex Building Products an outperform vote while only 57.29% of users gave Kaiser Aluminum an outperform vote.
Quanex Building Products has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Kaiser Aluminum's net margin of 1.85%. Quanex Building Products' return on equity of 17.11% beat Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity.
99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Quanex Building Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Quanex Building Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Quanex Building Products beats Kaiser Aluminum on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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