CALM vs. OR, EGO, SXT, MP, IOSP, TROX, HBM, TFPM, MEOH, and HL
Should you be buying Cal-Maine Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cal-Maine Foods include Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Sensient Technologies (SXT), MP Materials (MP), Innospec (IOSP), Tronox (TROX), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Methanex (MEOH), and Hecla Mining (HL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ:CALM) and Osisko Gold Royalties (NYSE:OR) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and risk.
Cal-Maine Foods presently has a consensus price target of $52.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.68%. Osisko Gold Royalties has a consensus price target of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.73%. Given Osisko Gold Royalties' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Osisko Gold Royalties is more favorable than Cal-Maine Foods.
Cal-Maine Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Osisko Gold Royalties pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Cal-Maine Foods pays out 8.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Osisko Gold Royalties pays out -94.7% 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. Osisko Gold Royalties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
84.7% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Osisko Gold Royalties shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Cal-Maine Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Osisko Gold Royalties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Osisko Gold Royalties had 19 more articles in the media than Cal-Maine Foods. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Osisko Gold Royalties and 6 mentions for Cal-Maine Foods. Cal-Maine Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Osisko Gold Royalties' score of 0.72 indicating that Cal-Maine Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cal-Maine Foods received 39 more outperform votes than Osisko Gold Royalties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.57% of users gave Osisko Gold Royalties an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Cal-Maine Foods an outperform vote.
Cal-Maine Foods has a beta of -0.06, indicating that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Osisko Gold Royalties has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cal-Maine Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Osisko Gold Royalties. Osisko Gold Royalties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cal-Maine Foods, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cal-Maine Foods has a net margin of 11.61% compared to Osisko Gold Royalties' net margin of -19.34%. Cal-Maine Foods' return on equity of 16.79% beat Osisko Gold Royalties' return on equity.
Summary
Cal-Maine Foods beats Osisko Gold Royalties on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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