BCPC vs. ALTM, ASH, NXE, AMR, CBT, HUN, FUL, CC, CRS, and AVNT
Should you be buying Balchem stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Balchem include Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Ashland (ASH), NexGen Energy (NXE), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Cabot (CBT), Huntsman (HUN), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Chemours (CC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), and Avient (AVNT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) and Balchem (NASDAQ:BCPC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Balchem has a consensus target price of $135.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.06%. Given Arcadium Lithium's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Balchem is more favorable than Arcadium Lithium.
Arcadium Lithium has a beta of 1.82, meaning that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balchem has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Balchem has a net margin of 11.77% compared to Balchem's net margin of 0.00%. Arcadium Lithium's return on equity of 10.69% beat Balchem's return on equity.
27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Balchem shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Balchem shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Arcadium Lithium pays an annual dividend of 6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 154.6%. Balchem pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Arcadium Lithium pays out 379.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balchem pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Balchem has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Balchem received 383 more outperform votes than Arcadium Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Arcadium Lithium an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Balchem an outperform vote.
Arcadium Lithium has higher revenue and earnings than Balchem. Arcadium Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Balchem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Balchem had 8 more articles in the media than Arcadium Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Balchem and 0 mentions for Arcadium Lithium. Arcadium Lithium's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Balchem's score of 0.00 indicating that Balchem is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Balchem beats Arcadium Lithium on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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