Corteva (CTVA) Competitors

Corteva (NYSE:CTVA) and BrightView (NYSE:BV) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Which has more risk and volatility, CTVA or BV?

Corteva has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightView has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CTVA or BV?

Corteva received 140 more outperform votes than BrightView when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.39% of users gave Corteva an outperform vote while only 36.59% of users gave BrightView an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Corteva	Outperform Votes 155 59.39%	Underperform Votes 106 40.61%
BrightView	Outperform Votes 15 36.59%	Underperform Votes 26 63.41%

Do analysts recommend CTVA or BV?

Corteva presently has a consensus target price of $63.89, indicating a potential upside of 8.72%. BrightView has a consensus target price of $16.41, indicating a potential upside of 4.25%. Given Corteva's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Corteva is more favorable than BrightView.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Corteva	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	15 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
BrightView	2 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.56

Is CTVA or BV more profitable?

Corteva has a net margin of 4.18% compared to BrightView's net margin of 2.40%. BrightView's return on equity of 7.65% beat Corteva's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Corteva	4.18%	6.63%	3.93%
BrightView	2.40%	7.65%	2.86%

Which has better earnings and valuation, CTVA or BV?

Corteva has higher revenue and earnings than BrightView. Corteva is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightView, 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
Corteva	$17.23B	2.34	$735M	$0.99	59.36
BrightView	$2.78B	0.54	$66.40M	$0.11	143.14

Does the media prefer CTVA or BV?

In the previous week, Corteva had 5 more articles in the media than BrightView. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Corteva and 28 mentions for BrightView. Corteva's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat BrightView's score of 0.36 indicating that Corteva is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Corteva	14 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	12 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
BrightView	6 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	13 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CTVA or BV?

81.5% of Corteva shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of BrightView shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Corteva shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of BrightView shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Corteva beats BrightView on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.