CF vs. MOS, SMG, ICL, NTR, GFI, BG, SUZ, ALB, SQM, and CE
Should you be buying CF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CF Industries include Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), ICL Group (ICL), Nutrien (NTR), Gold Fields (GFI), Bunge Global (BG), Suzano (SUZ), Albemarle (ALB), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), and Celanese (CE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) and CF Industries (NYSE:CF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
CF Industries has a net margin of 23.00% compared to CF Industries' net margin of 8.51%. Mosaic's return on equity of 18.44% beat CF Industries' return on equity.
Mosaic pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Mosaic pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CF Industries pays out 25.5% 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. Mosaic has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and CF Industries has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Mosaic is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Mosaic has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Industries has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.5% of Mosaic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Mosaic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CF Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mosaic. Mosaic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CF Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mosaic had 7 more articles in the media than CF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Mosaic and 13 mentions for CF Industries. Mosaic's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat CF Industries' score of 0.42 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CF Industries received 96 more outperform votes than Mosaic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 55.69% of users gave Mosaic an outperform vote.
Mosaic currently has a consensus target price of $40.27, suggesting a potential upside of 33.11%. CF Industries has a consensus target price of $86.47, suggesting a potential upside of 8.08%. Given CF Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Mosaic is more favorable than CF Industries.
Summary
CF Industries beats Mosaic on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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