MTRN vs. SLVM, MTX, HBM, TROX, MP, ANDE, CALM, OR, EGO, and SXT
Should you be buying Materion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Materion include Sylvamo (SLVM), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Tronox (TROX), MP Materials (MP), Andersons (ANDE), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO), and Sensient Technologies (SXT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM) and Materion (NYSE:MTRN) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Sylvamo presently has a consensus price target of $58.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.69%. Materion has a consensus price target of $144.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.89%. Given Sylvamo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Materion is more favorable than Sylvamo.
Sylvamo has higher revenue and earnings than Materion. Sylvamo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Materion had 1 more articles in the media than Sylvamo. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Materion and 2 mentions for Sylvamo. Materion's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Sylvamo's score of 0.44 indicating that Sylvamo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Materion received 303 more outperform votes than Sylvamo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.26% of users gave Materion an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Sylvamo an outperform vote.
91.2% of Sylvamo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Materion shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Sylvamo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Materion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sylvamo pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Materion pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Sylvamo pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Materion pays out 11.4% 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. Sylvamo has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Materion has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Sylvamo has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Materion has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sylvamo has a net margin of 6.77% compared to Sylvamo's net margin of 5.75%. Materion's return on equity of 32.81% beat Sylvamo's return on equity.
Summary
Materion beats Sylvamo on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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