AA vs. GTLS, ATKR, MLI, BERY, ESAB, SITE, TKR, FLS, ADT, and RBC
Should you be buying Alcoa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alcoa include Chart Industries (GTLS), Atkore (ATKR), Mueller Industries (MLI), Berry Global Group (BERY), ESAB (ESAB), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Timken (TKR), Flowserve (FLS), ADT (ADT), and RBC Bearings (RBC). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Alcoa currently has a consensus price target of $33.54, suggesting a potential downside of 9.64%. Chart Industries has a consensus price target of $196.21, suggesting a potential upside of 29.69%. Given Chart Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chart Industries is more favorable than Alcoa.
In the previous week, Chart Industries had 21 more articles in the media than Alcoa. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Chart Industries and 14 mentions for Alcoa. Alcoa's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Chart Industries' score of 0.43 indicating that Alcoa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alcoa received 535 more outperform votes than Chart Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.04% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 62.68% of users gave Chart Industries an outperform vote.
Alcoa has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its stock price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chart Industries has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chart Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chart Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chart Industries has a net margin of 1.59% compared to Alcoa's net margin of -6.41%. Chart Industries' return on equity of 9.49% beat Alcoa's return on equity.
Summary
Chart Industries beats Alcoa on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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