SMG vs. MOS, CF, ICL, AVNT, CC, FUL, CSWI, NXE, HUN, and AMR
Should you be buying Scotts Miracle-Gro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scotts Miracle-Gro include Mosaic (MOS), CF Industries (CF), ICL Group (ICL), Avient (AVNT), Chemours (CC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), CSW Industrials (CSWI), NexGen Energy (NXE), Huntsman (HUN), and Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE:SMG) and Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
Scotts Miracle-Gro presently has a consensus price target of $73.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.52%. Mosaic has a consensus price target of $38.57, indicating a potential upside of 30.62%. Given Mosaic's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mosaic is more favorable than Scotts Miracle-Gro.
Scotts Miracle-Gro pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Mosaic pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Scotts Miracle-Gro pays out -42.3% 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. Scotts Miracle-Gro is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Mosaic had 2 more articles in the media than Scotts Miracle-Gro. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Mosaic and 24 mentions for Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Mosaic's score of 0.13 indicating that Scotts Miracle-Gro is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mosaic has a net margin of 6.07% compared to Scotts Miracle-Gro's net margin of -10.14%. Mosaic's return on equity of 8.23% beat Scotts Miracle-Gro's return on equity.
74.1% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Mosaic shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.5% of Scotts Miracle-Gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Mosaic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Mosaic received 343 more outperform votes than Scotts Miracle-Gro when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.59% of users gave Mosaic 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, meaning that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mosaic has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mosaic has higher revenue and earnings than Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts Miracle-Gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mosaic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Mosaic beats Scotts Miracle-Gro on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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