OLN vs. FMC, HUN, BCPC, ASH, CC, IOSP, NGVT, CMC, AGI, and ICL
Should you be buying Olin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olin include FMC (FMC), Huntsman (HUN), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), Chemours (CC), Innospec (IOSP), Ingevity (NGVT), Commercial Metals (CMC), Alamos Gold (AGI), and ICL Group (ICL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
FMC (NYSE:FMC) and Olin (NYSE:OLN) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
FMC presently has a consensus price target of $70.56, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Olin has a consensus price target of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.88%. Given Olin's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe FMC is more favorable than Olin.
FMC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Olin. FMC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FMC has a net margin of 27.65% compared to FMC's net margin of 5.32%. FMC's return on equity of 14.47% beat Olin's return on equity.
FMC received 226 more outperform votes than Olin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.78% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Olin an outperform vote.
FMC has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olin has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
91.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Olin shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of FMC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Olin shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, FMC had 12 more articles in the media than Olin. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for FMC and 9 mentions for Olin. FMC's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Olin's score of 0.31 indicating that Olin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Olin pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. FMC pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Olin pays out 28.8% 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. FMC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
FMC beats Olin on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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