Alcoa (AA) Competitors

Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Alcoa (NYSE:AA) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CENX or AA?

61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Alcoa shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Century Aluminum shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Alcoa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CENX or AA?

Alcoa received 673 more outperform votes than Century Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.69% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 50.49% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Century Aluminum	Outperform Votes 362 50.49%	Underperform Votes 355 49.51%
Alcoa	Outperform Votes 1035 66.69%	Underperform Votes 517 33.31%

Do analysts rate CENX or AA?

Century Aluminum currently has a consensus price target of $24.33, suggesting a potential upside of 51.80%. Alcoa has a consensus price target of $46.25, suggesting a potential upside of 85.52%. Given Alcoa's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alcoa is more favorable than Century Aluminum.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Century Aluminum	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Alcoa	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has more volatility and risk, CENX or AA?

Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.56, suggesting that its share price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcoa has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CENX or AA?

Alcoa has higher revenue and earnings than Century Aluminum. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Century Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Century Aluminum	$2.22B	0.67	-$43.10M	$3.16	5.07
Alcoa	$11.90B	0.54	$60M	-$0.16	-155.81

Is CENX or AA more profitable?

Century Aluminum has a net margin of 14.69% compared to Alcoa's net margin of 0.50%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 13.38% beat Alcoa's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Century Aluminum	14.69%	13.38%	4.33%
Alcoa	0.50%	5.54%	2.07%

Does the media favor CENX or AA?

In the previous week, Alcoa had 5 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Alcoa and 21 mentions for Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Alcoa's score of 0.32 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Century Aluminum	10 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Alcoa	6 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Alcoa beats Century Aluminum on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.