CF vs. MOS, SMG, ICL, NTR, IP, WRK, SQM, SUZ, BG, and GFI
Should you be buying CF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CF Industries include Mosaic (MOS), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), ICL Group (ICL), Nutrien (NTR), International Paper (IP), WestRock (WRK), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Suzano (SUZ), Bunge Global (BG), and Gold Fields (GFI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
CF Industries (NYSE:CF) and Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
CF Industries currently has a consensus target price of $85.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.52%. Mosaic has a consensus target price of $38.36, suggesting a potential upside of 25.31%. Given Mosaic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mosaic is more favorable than CF Industries.
CF Industries received 95 more outperform votes than Mosaic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave CF Industries an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Mosaic an outperform vote.
CF Industries has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Mosaic's net margin of 6.07%. CF Industries' return on equity of 14.08% beat Mosaic's return on equity.
In the previous week, CF Industries and CF Industries both had 19 articles in the media. CF Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Mosaic's score of 0.51 indicating that CF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CF Industries has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mosaic has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CF Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mosaic. CF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mosaic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.1% of CF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Mosaic shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Mosaic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CF Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Mosaic pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. CF Industries pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mosaic pays out 35.7% 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.
Summary
CF Industries beats Mosaic on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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