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Clearwater Paper (CLW) Competitors

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$25.88
+0.69 (+2.74%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

CLW vs. GLT, IP, LEU, SCL, SA, SILV, FSM, ANDE, CGAU, and NGVT

Should you be buying Clearwater Paper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clearwater Paper include Glatfelter (GLT), International Paper (IP), Centrus Energy (LEU), Stepan (SCL), Seabridge Gold (SA), SilverCrest Metals (SILV), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Andersons (ANDE), Centerra Gold (CGAU), and Ingevity (NGVT).

Clearwater Paper vs.

Glatfelter (NYSE:GLT) and Clearwater Paper (NYSE:CLW) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Glatfelter has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clearwater Paper has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Clearwater Paper has a net margin of 2.16% compared to Glatfelter's net margin of -5.08%. Clearwater Paper's return on equity of 11.56% beat Glatfelter's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Glatfelter-5.08% -17.28% -2.58%
Clearwater Paper 2.16%11.56%4.07%

Clearwater Paper has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.97%. Given Clearwater Paper's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clearwater Paper is more favorable than Glatfelter.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Glatfelter
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Clearwater Paper
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Glatfelter$1.39B0.06-$79.05M-$1.47-1.18
Clearwater Paper$2.08B0.21$107.80M$2.689.66

Clearwater Paper received 182 more outperform votes than Glatfelter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.80% of users gave Clearwater Paper an outperform vote while only 58.49% of users gave Glatfelter an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
GlatfelterOutperform Votes
224
58.49%
Underperform Votes
159
41.51%
Clearwater PaperOutperform Votes
406
61.80%
Underperform Votes
251
38.20%

76.9% of Glatfelter shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Clearwater Paper shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Glatfelter shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Clearwater Paper shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Clearwater Paper had 3 more articles in the media than Glatfelter. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Clearwater Paper and 5 mentions for Glatfelter. Clearwater Paper's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Glatfelter's score of 0.00 indicating that Clearwater Paper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Glatfelter
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Clearwater Paper
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Clearwater Paper beats Glatfelter on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CLW vs. The Competition

MetricClearwater PaperPaperboard mills IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$418.96M$418.96M$3.06B$19.27B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A5.11%3.54%
P/E Ratio9.669.66125.6841.45
Price / Sales0.210.21543,168.3214.67
Price / Cash1.921.9223.8420.83
Price / Book0.640.643.665.39
Net Income$107.80M$107.80M$152.21M$985.39M
7 Day Performance-4.78%-4.78%-1.22%-0.70%
1 Month Performance-3.18%-3.18%1.87%-0.97%
1 Year Performance-27.24%-27.24%32.73%25.06%

Clearwater Paper Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CLW
Clearwater Paper
4.0992 of 5 stars
$25.88
+2.7%
$37.00
+43.0%
-25.1%$418.96M$2.08B9.663,100Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
GLT
Glatfelter
0.5705 of 5 stars
$1.90
+5.0%
N/A+5.8%$85.75M$1.31B-1.212,980Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
IP
International Paper
3.989 of 5 stars
$49.03
+3.7%
$50.46
+2.9%
+65.9%$17.03B$18.57B40.1939,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
LEU
Centrus Energy
1.8915 of 5 stars
$102.91
-1.9%
$92.00
-10.6%
+108.9%$1.68B$394M18.34280Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SCL
Stepan
4.3154 of 5 stars
$74.40
+2.0%
N/A-1.6%$1.67B$2.33B48.622,389Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
SA
Seabridge Gold
0.3652 of 5 stars
$18.39
-3.4%
N/A+54.7%$1.63BN/A-262.71N/APositive News
SILV
SilverCrest Metals
0.5359 of 5 stars
$10.78
-1.8%
$10.13
-6.1%
N/A$1.60B$261.54M15.18340
FSM
Fortuna Silver Mines
1.9822 of 5 stars
$5.11
-3.2%
$6.50
+27.2%
+75.2%$1.56B$993.29M511.512,490Upcoming Earnings
ANDE
Andersons
4.7861 of 5 stars
$45.77
-0.8%
$65.00
+42.0%
-10.9%$1.56B$12.36B15.362,334Upcoming Earnings
CGAU
Centerra Gold
3.6545 of 5 stars
$7.26
-0.7%
$11.00
+51.5%
+17.3%$1.54B$1.27B11.521,236Dividend Increase
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Gap Down
NGVT
Ingevity
2.8437 of 5 stars
$41.65
+17.9%
$51.00
+22.4%
+7.1%$1.51B$1.69B-3.501,700Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
High Trading Volume

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