NGVT vs. HWKN, PRM, IOSP, CC, HUN, ASH, BCPC, OLN, SCL, and CDE
Should you be buying Ingevity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingevity include Hawkins (HWKN), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Innospec (IOSP), Chemours (CC), Huntsman (HUN), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Olin (OLN), Stepan (SCL), and Coeur Mining (CDE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) and Ingevity (NYSE:NGVT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Hawkins has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingevity has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hawkins currently has a consensus price target of $96.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.61%. Ingevity has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.71%. Given Ingevity's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hawkins is more favorable than Ingevity.
Ingevity received 161 more outperform votes than Hawkins when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.39% of users gave Ingevity an outperform vote while only 59.39% of users gave Hawkins an outperform vote.
Hawkins has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ingevity. Ingevity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawkins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hawkins had 18 more articles in the media than Ingevity. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Hawkins and 2 mentions for Ingevity. Hawkins' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Ingevity's score of 0.06 indicating that Ingevity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hawkins has a net margin of 8.20% compared to Hawkins' net margin of -6.84%. Ingevity's return on equity of 19.41% beat Hawkins' return on equity.
69.7% of Hawkins shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ingevity shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Hawkins shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ingevity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hawkins beats Ingevity on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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