CALM vs. SLVM, EGO, TROX, OR, MP, MTX, SXT, IOSP, KWR, and TFPM
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include Sylvamo (SLVM), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Tronox (TROX), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), MP Materials (MP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Quaker Chemical (KWR), and Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) and Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Cal-Maine Foods currently has a consensus price target of $52.50, indicating a potential downside of 9.76%. Sylvamo has a consensus price target of $62.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.81%. Given Cal-Maine Foods' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cal-Maine Foods is more favorable than Sylvamo.
In the previous week, Sylvamo had 6 more articles in the media than Cal-Maine Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Sylvamo and 3 mentions for Cal-Maine Foods. Cal-Maine Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Sylvamo's score of 0.61 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Sylvamo shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Sylvamo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.02, indicating that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sylvamo has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cal-Maine Foods received 273 more outperform votes than Sylvamo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote while only 36.84% of users gave Sylvamo an outperform vote.
Cal-Maine Foods has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sylvamo. Cal-Maine Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sylvamo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $3.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Sylvamo pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 70.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sylvamo pays out 25.6% 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.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to Sylvamo's net margin of 5.40%. Sylvamo's return on equity of 24.67% beat Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity.
Summary
Cal-Maine Foods beats Sylvamo on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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