ICL vs. NTR, AXTA, ESI, ALTM, CSWI, AVNT, MEOH, CC, BAK, and PRM
Should you be buying ICL Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICL Group include Nutrien (NTR), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), Element Solutions (ESI), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), Chemours (CC), Braskem (BAK), and Perimeter Solutions (PRM). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
ICL Group vs.
ICL Group (NYSE:ICL) and Nutrien (NYSE:NTR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
13.4% of ICL Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Nutrien shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ICL Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Nutrien shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ICL Group presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.83%. Nutrien has a consensus target price of $59.39, suggesting a potential upside of 12.75%. Given Nutrien's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nutrien is more favorable than ICL Group.
ICL Group pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Nutrien pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. ICL Group pays out 41.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nutrien pays out 157.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
ICL Group has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutrien has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 21 more articles in the media than ICL Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Nutrien and 6 mentions for ICL Group. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat ICL Group's score of 0.70 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nutrien received 188 more outperform votes than ICL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.30% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave ICL Group an outperform vote.
Nutrien has higher revenue and earnings than ICL Group. ICL Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutrien, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICL Group has a net margin of 5.83% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 2.62%. ICL Group's return on equity of 8.31% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
Summary
Nutrien beats ICL Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ICL) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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