FUL vs. CSWI, HUN, CC, AVNT, SMG, NXE, ASH, SID, BCPC, and AMR
Should you be buying H.B. Fuller stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H.B. Fuller include CSW Industrials (CSWI), Huntsman (HUN), Chemours (CC), Avient (AVNT), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), NexGen Energy (NXE), Ashland (ASH), Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (SID), Balchem (BCPC), and Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
H.B. Fuller (NYSE:FUL) and CSW Industrials (NASDAQ:CSWI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
H.B. Fuller currently has a consensus target price of $86.20, suggesting a potential upside of 6.22%. Given H.B. Fuller's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe H.B. Fuller is more favorable than CSW Industrials.
95.9% of H.B. Fuller shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of CSW Industrials shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of H.B. Fuller shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of CSW Industrials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
H.B. Fuller has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSW Industrials has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H.B. Fuller received 71 more outperform votes than CSW Industrials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.02% of users gave CSW Industrials an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave H.B. Fuller an outperform vote.
CSW Industrials has a net margin of 12.47% compared to H.B. Fuller's net margin of 4.39%. CSW Industrials' return on equity of 18.47% beat H.B. Fuller's return on equity.
H.B. Fuller pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. CSW Industrials pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. H.B. Fuller pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSW Industrials pays out 13.5% 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.
In the previous week, CSW Industrials had 4 more articles in the media than H.B. Fuller. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CSW Industrials and 3 mentions for H.B. Fuller. CSW Industrials' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat H.B. Fuller's score of 0.35 indicating that CSW Industrials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
H.B. Fuller has higher revenue and earnings than CSW Industrials. H.B. Fuller is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSW Industrials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSW Industrials beats H.B. Fuller on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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