AVNT vs. ALB, EMN, HXL, ROG, PCT, ASIX, TSE, DNMR, DOW, and DD
Should you be buying Avient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avient include Albemarle (ALB), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Hexcel (HXL), Rogers (ROG), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), AdvanSix (ASIX), Trinseo (TSE), Danimer Scientific (DNMR), DOW (DOW), and DuPont de Nemours (DD). These companies are all part of the "plastics materials & resins" industry.
Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) and Avient (NYSE:AVNT) are both 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, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
92.9% of Albemarle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Avient shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Albemarle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Avient shares are held 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.
Albemarle has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Albemarle has higher revenue and earnings than Avient. Avient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albemarle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Albemarle pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Avient pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Albemarle pays out 58.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient pays out 89.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Avient has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Avient is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Albemarle has a net margin of 4.02% compared to Albemarle's net margin of 3.37%. Avient's return on equity of 14.53% beat Albemarle's return on equity.
Albemarle received 736 more outperform votes than Avient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.39% of users gave Albemarle an outperform vote while only 45.61% of users gave Avient an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Albemarle had 3 more articles in the media than Avient. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Albemarle and 1 mentions for Avient. Albemarle's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Avient's score of 0.67 indicating that Avient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Albemarle currently has a consensus price target of $165.16, indicating a potential upside of 43.69%. Avient has a consensus price target of $46.20, indicating a potential upside of 4.86%. Given Avient's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Albemarle is more favorable than Avient.
Summary
Albemarle beats Avient on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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