AVD vs. IPI, CF, MOS, SMG, BIOX, CBUS, ENFY, NITO, EVGN, and SNES
Should you be buying American Vanguard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Vanguard include Intrepid Potash (IPI), CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), Enlightify (ENFY), N2OFF (NITO), Evogene (EVGN), and SenesTech (SNES).
American Vanguard vs.
American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) and Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
Intrepid Potash received 11 more outperform votes than American Vanguard when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.96% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Intrepid Potash an outperform vote.
American Vanguard currently has a consensus target price of $16.67, suggesting a potential upside of 215.30%. Intrepid Potash has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.76%. Given American Vanguard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.
79.0% of American Vanguard shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of American Vanguard shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
American Vanguard has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intrepid Potash has a beta of 2.23, suggesting that its share price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intrepid Potash had 4 more articles in the media than American Vanguard. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Intrepid Potash and 1 mentions for American Vanguard. Intrepid Potash's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.67 indicating that Intrepid Potash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Vanguard has higher revenue and earnings than Intrepid Potash. Intrepid Potash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Vanguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Vanguard has a net margin of -5.22% compared to Intrepid Potash's net margin of -16.86%. Intrepid Potash's return on equity of -1.32% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.
Summary
American Vanguard beats Intrepid Potash on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:AVD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
