NEU vs. CE, RPM, ALB, ASH, BCPC, FUL, SXT, IOSP, KWR, and MTX
Should you be buying NewMarket stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewMarket include Celanese (CE), RPM International (RPM), Albemarle (ALB), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Quaker Chemical (KWR), and Minerals Technologies (MTX). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) and Celanese (NYSE:CE) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Celanese has a consensus price target of $161.41, indicating a potential upside of 11.36%. Given Celanese's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Celanese is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Celanese pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Celanese pays out 15.4% 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. Celanese is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
61.1% of NewMarket shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Celanese shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of NewMarket shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Celanese shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Celanese received 449 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.61% of users gave Celanese an outperform vote while only 63.46% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Celanese had 11 more articles in the media than NewMarket. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Celanese and 4 mentions for NewMarket. NewMarket's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Celanese's score of 0.68 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Celanese has a net margin of 18.60% compared to NewMarket's net margin of 14.82%. NewMarket's return on equity of 38.99% beat Celanese's return on equity.
NewMarket has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celanese has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Celanese has higher revenue and earnings than NewMarket. Celanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NewMarket, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Celanese beats NewMarket on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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