CENX vs. AA, DNOW, GIC, HOLI, B, HLIO, UFPT, POWL, KALU, and NSSC
Should you be buying Century Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Century Aluminum include Alcoa (AA), DNOW (DNOW), Global Industrial (GIC), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Powell Industries (POWL), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), and Napco Security Technologies (NSSC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) and Alcoa (NYSE:AA) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.71, suggesting that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alcoa has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its stock price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Century Aluminum has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alcoa. Century Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alcoa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 12 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Alcoa and 5 mentions for Century Aluminum. Century Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Alcoa's score of 0.57 indicating that Century Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alcoa received 659 more outperform votes than Century Aluminum when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.04% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 51.14% of users gave Century Aluminum an outperform vote.
61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Century Aluminum has a net margin of -2.05% compared to Alcoa's net margin of -6.41%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 5.18% beat Alcoa's return on equity.
Century Aluminum currently has a consensus target price of $10.67, indicating a potential downside of 40.64%. Alcoa has a consensus target price of $33.54, indicating a potential downside of 9.05%. Given Alcoa's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alcoa is more favorable than Century Aluminum.
Summary
Century Aluminum beats Alcoa on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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