Posted by admin on Aug 3rd, 2022

Resolute Forest Products (NYSE:RFP – Get Rating) and Mativ (NYSE:MATV – Get Rating) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation.

This table compares Resolute Forest Products and Mativ’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Resolute Forest Products has higher revenue and earnings than Mativ. Resolute Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mativ, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Resolute Forest Products has a beta of 2.94, indicating that its stock price is 194% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mativ has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

This table compares Resolute Forest Products and Mativ’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Resolute Forest Products and Mativ, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

Resolute Forest Products presently has a consensus price target of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.02%. Given Resolute Forest Products’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Resolute Forest Products is more favorable than Mativ.

86.3% of Resolute Forest Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Mativ shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Resolute Forest Products shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Mativ shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Resolute Forest Products beats Mativ on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

Resolute Forest Products Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates in the forest products industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Market Pulp, Tissue, Wood Products, and Paper. The Market Pulp segment offers virgin and recycled bleached Kraft pulp, which is used to make a range of consumer products, including tissue, packaging, specialty paper products, diapers, and other absorbent products. The Tissue segment provides various tissue products, such as recycled and virgin paper products for the away-from-home and retail markets; and sells parent rolls. The Wood Products segment produces construction-grade and spruce-pine-fir lumber products, wood chips, bed frame components, finger joints, and furring strips for pulp and paper mills, as well as I-joists for the construction industry. The Paper segment offers newsprint to newspaper publishers, as well as to commercial printers for uses comprising inserts and flyers. This segment also provides various uncoated mechanical papers, including supercalendered and white papers, as well as uncoated freesheet papers. Its specialty papers are used in books, retail inserts, direct mail, coupons, magazines, catalogs, bags, and other commercial printing applications. This segment sells specialty papers to commercial printers, direct mailers, publishers, catalogers, and retailers. The company also produces electricity at cogeneration facilities and hydroelectric dams. Resolute Forest Products Inc. is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Mativ Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides engineered solutions and advanced materials for various industries worldwide. It operates through two segments, Advanced Materials & Structures and Engineered Papers. The Advanced Materials & Structures segment manufactures and sells resin-based rolled goods, such as nets, films and meltblown materials, bonding products, and adhesive components, as well as offers other coating solutions and converting services for healthcare, construction, industrial, transportation and filtration end-markets. The Engineered Papers segment provides low ignition propensity cigarette papers that are designed to self-extinguish when not actively being smoked; reconstituted tobacco leaf, and wrapper and binder products use in machine-made cigars; alkaline battery separator papers; and commodity paper grades for printing and writing, flooring laminates, and food service packaging. It also offers Botani, a hemp and botanical solution, which includes hemp wraps, fillers, and rolling/pre-roll papers for the natural fibers industry. The company was formerly known as Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. and changed its name to Mativ Holdings, Inc. in July 2022. Mativ Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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