ANDE vs. SCL, NGVT, AG, IAG, CDE, ERO, SAND, HWKN, WS, and FSM
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Stepan (SCL), Ingevity (NGVT), First Majestic Silver (AG), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), Ero Copper (ERO), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Hawkins (HWKN), Worthington Steel (WS), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Stepan (NYSE:SCL) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Andersons received 56 more outperform votes than Stepan when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.82% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote while only 55.45% of users gave Stepan an outperform vote.
Stepan has a net margin of 1.73% compared to Stepan's net margin of 0.69%. Stepan's return on equity of 8.19% beat Andersons' return on equity.
82.7% of Stepan shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Stepan shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Stepan. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stepan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stepan has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stepan pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Andersons pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Stepan pays out 85.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Andersons pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stepan has increased its dividend for 56 consecutive years and Andersons has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Stepan is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Stepan currently has a consensus target price of $89.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.39%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.76%. Given Stepan's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than Stepan.
In the previous week, Andersons had 4 more articles in the media than Stepan. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Andersons and 13 mentions for Stepan. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Stepan's score of 0.47 indicating that Stepan is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Andersons beats Stepan on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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