ANDE vs. NGVT, SCL, IAG, CDE, AG, ERO, SAND, HWKN, WS, and MTRN
Should you be buying Andersons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Andersons include Ingevity (NGVT), Stepan (SCL), IAMGOLD (IAG), Coeur Mining (CDE), First Majestic Silver (AG), Ero Copper (ERO), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Hawkins (HWKN), Worthington Steel (WS), and Materion (MTRN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) and Ingevity (NYSE:NGVT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ingevity shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ingevity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Andersons presently has a consensus price target of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.48%. Ingevity has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.85%. Given Andersons' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than Ingevity.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Ingevity. Ingevity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Andersons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Andersons has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingevity has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingevity received 76 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.39% of users gave Ingevity an outperform vote while only 56.82% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
Andersons has a net margin of 0.69% compared to Ingevity's net margin of -6.84%. Ingevity's return on equity of 18.65% beat Andersons' return on equity.
In the previous week, Andersons and Andersons both had 14 articles in the media. Ingevity's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Andersons' score of 0.02 indicating that Ingevity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Andersons beats Ingevity on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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