ANDE vs. WS, SAND, FSM, HWKN, SCL, NGVT, OEC, CDE, AG, and KRO
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Worthington Steel (WS), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Hawkins (HWKN), Stepan (SCL), Ingevity (NGVT), Orion (OEC), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), and Kronos Worldwide (KRO). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Worthington Steel (NYSE:WS) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Worthington Steel.
Worthington Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Andersons pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Andersons has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Andersons received 297 more outperform votes than Worthington Steel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Worthington Steel an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Andersons had 2 more articles in the media than Worthington Steel. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Andersons and 2 mentions for Worthington Steel. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Worthington Steel's score of -0.10 indicating that Worthington Steel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Andersons has a net margin of 0.89% compared to Andersons' net margin of 0.00%. Worthington Steel's return on equity of 7.93% beat Andersons' return on equity.
Worthington Steel presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.40%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.43%. Given Worthington Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than Worthington Steel.
45.4% of Worthington Steel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Andersons beats Worthington Steel on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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