Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) Competitors

Rayonier Advanced Materials (NYSE:RYAM) and MillerKnoll (NASDAQ:MLKN) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Is RYAM or MLKN a better dividend stock?

Rayonier Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. MillerKnoll pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays out -47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts recommend RYAM or MLKN?

Rayonier Advanced Materials presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 120.22%. Given Rayonier Advanced Materials' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Rayonier Advanced Materials is more favorable than MillerKnoll.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rayonier Advanced Materials	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
MillerKnoll	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor RYAM or MLKN?

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 57.65% of users gave Rayonier Advanced Materials an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Rayonier Advanced Materials	Outperform Votes 290 57.65%	Underperform Votes 213 42.35%
MillerKnoll	Outperform Votes 13 59.09%	Underperform Votes 9 40.91%

Which has better valuation and earnings, RYAM or MLKN?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rayonier Advanced Materials	$1.63B	0.20	-$101.83M	-$0.59	-8.47
MillerKnoll	$3.60B	0.33	$82.30M	$0.42	41.38

Does the media refer more to RYAM or MLKN?

In the previous week, MillerKnoll had 13 more articles in the media than Rayonier Advanced Materials. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for MillerKnoll and 2 mentions for Rayonier Advanced Materials. Rayonier Advanced Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat MillerKnoll's score of 0.13 indicating that Rayonier Advanced Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Rayonier Advanced Materials	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
MillerKnoll	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals believe in RYAM or MLKN?

68.6% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by company 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.

Is RYAM or MLKN more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rayonier Advanced Materials	-5.21%	-1.61%	-0.55%
MillerKnoll	1.81%	10.74%	3.59%

Which has more risk and volatility, RYAM or MLKN?

Rayonier Advanced Materials has a beta of 3.01, suggesting that its stock price is 201% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MillerKnoll has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MillerKnoll beats Rayonier Advanced Materials on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.