Head-To-Head Analysis: AdvanSix (NYSE:ASIX) and good natured Products (OTCMKTS:SLGBF)

AdvanSix (NYSE:ASIX) and good natured Products (OTCMKTS:SLGBF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares AdvanSix and good natured Products’ gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AdvanSix	$1.53 billion	0.48	$54.62 million	$1.90	14.45
good natured Products	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

AdvanSix has higher revenue and earnings than good natured Products.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for AdvanSix and good natured Products, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AdvanSix	0	0	2	0	3.00
good natured Products	0	0	0	0	N/A

AdvanSix presently has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.67%. Given AdvanSix’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe AdvanSix is more favorable than good natured Products.

Profitability

This table compares AdvanSix and good natured Products’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AdvanSix	3.56%	6.98%	3.59%
good natured Products	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

86.4% of AdvanSix shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of AdvanSix shares are owned by company 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.

Summary

AdvanSix beats good natured Products on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AdvanSix

AdvanSix Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of polymer resins in the United States and internationally. It offers Nylon 6, a polymer resin, which is a synthetic material used to produce fibers, filaments, engineered plastics, and films. The company also provides caprolactam to manufacture polymer resins; ammonium sulfate fertilizers to distributors, farm cooperatives, and retailers; and acetone that are used in the production of adhesives, paints, coatings, solvents, herbicides, and engineered plastic resins, as well as other intermediate chemicals, including phenol, monoisopropylamine, dipropylamine, monoallylamine, alpha-methylstyrene, cyclohexanone, methyl ethyl ketoxime, acetaldehyde oxime, 2-pentanone oxime, cyclohexanol, sulfuric acid, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. It offers its products under the Aegis, Capran, Sulf-N, Nadone, Naxol, and EZ-Blox brands. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors. AdvanSix Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.

About good natured Products

good natured Products Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, produces, and distributes bioplastics for use in packaging and durable product applications in Canada and the United States. It offers packaging products for baked goods, deli and prepared meals, and fruits and veggies; home and business products, including totes and crates, stacking posts for legal desk trays, vertical file holders, self-stacker desk trays, pencil holders, paper clip dispensers, and recyclers and waste collectors; pallet stretch wraps and resins; compostable take out containers, such as hot cups and lids, plates, carry out boxes, cutlery, and soup bowls and lids; and plastic sheet and film products, including extruded roll stock sheets for thermoformed packaging. The company was formerly known as Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. and changed its name to good natured Products Inc. in October 2017. good natured Products Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.