RYAM vs. MLKN, MAGN, MERC, PACK, MATV, VIRC, DSY, ILAG, ITP, and SUZ
Should you be buying Rayonier Advanced Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rayonier Advanced Materials include MillerKnoll (MLKN), Magnera (MAGN), Mercer International (MERC), Ranpak (PACK), Mativ (MATV), Virco Mfg. (VIRC), Big Tree Cloud (DSY), Intelligent Living Application Group (ILAG), IT Tech Packaging (ITP), and Suzano (SUZ). These companies are all part of the "business supplies" industry.
Rayonier Advanced Materials vs.
MillerKnoll (NASDAQ:MLKN) and Rayonier Advanced Materials (NYSE:RYAM) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Rayonier Advanced Materials has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 152.58%. Given Rayonier Advanced Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Rayonier Advanced Materials is more favorable than MillerKnoll.
MillerKnoll has higher revenue and earnings than Rayonier Advanced Materials. Rayonier Advanced Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MillerKnoll, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MillerKnoll had 4 more articles in the media than Rayonier Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for MillerKnoll and 1 mentions for Rayonier Advanced Materials. Rayonier Advanced Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat MillerKnoll's score of 0.76 indicating that Rayonier Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MillerKnoll has a net margin of 1.81% compared to Rayonier Advanced Materials' net margin of -5.21%. MillerKnoll's return on equity of 10.74% beat Rayonier Advanced Materials' return on equity.
Rayonier Advanced Materials received 277 more outperform votes than MillerKnoll when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.09% of users gave MillerKnoll an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Rayonier Advanced Materials an outperform vote.
MillerKnoll has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rayonier Advanced Materials has a beta of 2.86, indicating that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.5% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.6% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MillerKnoll pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. MillerKnoll pays out 178.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays out -47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rayonier Advanced Materials is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
MillerKnoll beats Rayonier Advanced Materials on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RYAM) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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