SMG vs. CF, MOS, IPI, AVD, ICL, UAN, BIOX, CBUS, ENFY, and NITO
Should you be buying Scotts Miracle-Gro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scotts Miracle-Gro include CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Intrepid Potash (IPI), American Vanguard (AVD), ICL Group (ICL), CVR Partners (UAN), Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), Cibus (CBUS), Enlightify (ENFY), and N2OFF (NITO).
Scotts Miracle-Gro vs.
CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
CF Industries has a net margin of 20.52% compared to Scotts Miracle-Gro's net margin of -0.67%. CF Industries' return on equity of 15.33% beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity.
In the previous week, CF Industries had 24 more articles in the media than Scotts Miracle-Gro. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for CF Industries and 6 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's score of 0.95 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. CF Industries pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays out -550.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Scotts Miracle-Gro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CF Industries presently has a consensus target price of $92.29, suggesting a potential upside of 18.47%. Scotts Miracle-Gro has a consensus target price of $75.83, suggesting a potential upside of 25.72%. Given Scotts Miracle-Gro's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Scotts Miracle-Gro is more favorable than CF Industries.
CF Industries received 446 more outperform votes than Scotts Miracle-Gro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.78% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 54.26% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
CF Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.1% of CF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.4% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held 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.
CF Industries has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CF Industries beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SMG) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
