NTR vs. CF, MOS, TECK, GOLD, WPM, PPG, FNV, DD, LYB, and AEM
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Teck Resources (TECK), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), PPG Industries (PPG), Franco-Nevada (FNV), DuPont de Nemours (DD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
CF Industries currently has a consensus target price of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.98%. Nutrien has a consensus target price of $67.37, suggesting a potential upside of 17.84%. Given CF Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than CF Industries.
CF Industries has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CF Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nutrien. CF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CF Industries received 375 more outperform votes than Nutrien when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.08% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to CF Industries' net margin of 3.01%. Nutrien's return on equity of 14.08% beat CF Industries' return on equity.
CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien pays out 126.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CF Industries has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Nutrien has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Nutrien is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 1 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Nutrien and 18 mentions for CF Industries. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Nutrien's score of 0.57 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nutrien beats CF Industries on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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