NXE vs. SMG, CSWI, AMR, AVNT, SBSW, HUN, CC, FUL, MEOH, and KWR
Should you be buying NexGen Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NexGen Energy include Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), Avient (AVNT), Sibanye Stillwater (SBSW), Huntsman (HUN), Chemours (CC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Methanex (MEOH), and Quaker Chemical (KWR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) and NexGen Energy (NYSE:NXE) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of NexGen Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of NexGen Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Scotts Miracle-Gro currently has a consensus target price of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.05%. NexGen Energy has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.67%. Given Scotts Miracle-Gro's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NexGen Energy is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
NexGen Energy has a net margin of 0.00% compared to NexGen Energy's net margin of -10.14%. Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity of -15.45% beat NexGen Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, NexGen Energy had 5 more articles in the media than Scotts Miracle-Gro. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for NexGen Energy and 4 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro. NexGen Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's score of 0.36 indicating that Scotts Miracle-Gro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NexGen Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. NexGen Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scotts Miracle-Gro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scotts Miracle-Gro received 356 more outperform votes than NexGen Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NexGen Energy an outperform vote while only 54.49% of users gave Scotts Miracle-Gro an outperform vote.
Scotts Miracle-Gro has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexGen Energy has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
NexGen Energy beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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