NTR vs. TECK.B, WPM, FNV, ABX, AEM, IVN, FM, TNX, LUN, and K
Should you be buying Nutrien stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutrien include Teck Resources (TECK.B), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Barrick Gold (ABX), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Ivanhoe Mines (IVN), First Quantum Minerals (FM), TRX Gold (TNX), Lundin Mining (LUN), and Kinross Gold (K). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Nutrien (TSE:NTR) and Teck Resources (TSE:TECK.B) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Nutrien has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teck Resources has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Nutrien pays an annual dividend of C$2.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Teck Resources pays an annual dividend of C$0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Nutrien pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Teck Resources pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Teck Resources has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nutrien. Nutrien is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teck Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Teck Resources received 305 more outperform votes than Nutrien when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.88% of users gave Nutrien an outperform vote while only 60.99% of users gave Teck Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nutrien had 17 more articles in the media than Teck Resources. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Nutrien and 1 mentions for Teck Resources. Nutrien's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Teck Resources' score of 0.10 indicating that Nutrien is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Teck Resources has a net margin of 10.60% compared to Nutrien's net margin of 4.48%. Teck Resources' return on equity of 5.37% beat Nutrien's return on equity.
68.5% of Nutrien shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Teck Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Nutrien shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Teck Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nutrien presently has a consensus target price of C$68.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.94%. Teck Resources has a consensus target price of C$72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.37%. Given Teck Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Teck Resources is more favorable than Nutrien.
Summary
Teck Resources beats Nutrien on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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