Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV (OTCMKTS:KCDMY – Get Free Report) and Rayonier Advanced Materials (NYSE:RYAM – Get Free Report) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Volatility & Risk
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rayonier Advanced Materials has a beta of 2.64, suggesting that its stock price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV and Rayonier Advanced Materials, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Rayonier Advanced Materials | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.67 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV and Rayonier Advanced Materials”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV | $3.01 billion | 2.02 | $429.88 million | $0.62 | 15.92 |
| Rayonier Advanced Materials | $1.52 billion | 0.33 | -$38.71 million | ($6.67) | -1.11 |
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV has higher revenue and earnings than Rayonier Advanced Materials. Rayonier Advanced Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
68.6% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Rayonier Advanced Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dividends
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV pays an annual dividend of $0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rayonier Advanced Materials pays out -4.2% 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. Rayonier Advanced Materials is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Profitability
This table compares Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV and Rayonier Advanced Materials’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV | 13.36% | 135.47% | 14.19% |
| Rayonier Advanced Materials | -29.23% | -12.11% | -3.68% |
Summary
Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV beats Rayonier Advanced Materials on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB de CV
Kimberly-Clark de México, S. A. B. de C. V., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and markets disposable products in Mexico. The company offers baby diapers, training pants, swim pants, wet wipes, shampoos, creams, bar soaps, and feeding products. It also provides toilet papers, napkins, facial tissues, paper towels, feminine pads, panty liners, tampons, intimate wipes, and menstrual cups. In addition, the company offers pets shampoos, sprays, repellents, and cleaners. Further, it provides liquid hand soap, foaming liquid soap, and liquid body wash; and underwear, protectors, feminine pads, pre-folded products for adults. Additionally, the company offers anti-bacterial gels; disinfectant sprays; face masks; dispensers; hand towels; and industrial cleaning cloths. The company offers its products primarily under the Huggies, KleenBebe, Kleenex, Evenflo, Pétalo, Suavel, Cottonelle, Depend, Kotex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Vogue, Delsey, Diapro, LYS, Fancy, Kimberly-Clark, and Escudo brands. The company exports its products. Kimberly-Clark de México, S. A. B. de C. V. was founded in 1925 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
About Rayonier Advanced Materials
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. manufactures and sells cellulose specialty products in the United States, China, Latin America, Canada, Japan, Europe, Latin America, other Asian countries, and internationally. It operates through High Purity Cellulose, Paperboard, and High-Yield Pulp segments. The company’s products include cellulose specialties, which are natural polymers that are used as raw materials to manufacture a range of consumer-oriented products, such as liquid crystal displays, impact-resistant plastics, thickeners for food products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, cigarette filters, high-tenacity rayon yarn for tires and industrial hoses, food casings, paints, and lacquers. It also offers commodity products, such as commodity viscose pulp used in woven applications, including rayon textiles for clothing and other fabrics, as well as in non-woven applications comprising baby wipes, cosmetic and personal wipes, industrial wipes, and mattress ticking; and absorbent materials consisting of fluff fibers that are used as an absorbent medium in disposable baby diapers, feminine hygiene products, incontinence pads, convalescent bed pads, industrial towels and wipes, and non-woven fabrics. In addition, the company provides paperboards for packaging, printing documents, brochures, promotional materials, paperback books and catalog covers, file folders, tags, and lottery tickets; and high-yield pulps to produces hardwood aspen, maple, and birch species for paperboard, packaging, printing and writing papers, and various other paper products. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
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