TG vs. LYB, WLK, CBT, HWKN, KRO, KOP, HWM, MLI, WIRE, and KALU
Should you be buying Tredegar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tredegar include LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), Cabot (CBT), Hawkins (HWKN), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Koppers (KOP), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Mueller Industries (MLI), Encore Wire (WIRE), and Kaiser Aluminum (KALU).
Tredegar (NYSE:TG) and LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
LyondellBasell Industries received 539 more outperform votes than Tredegar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.23% of users gave Tredegar an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave LyondellBasell Industries an outperform vote.
LyondellBasell Industries has a consensus price target of $105.08, indicating a potential upside of 11.79%. Given LyondellBasell Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LyondellBasell Industries is more favorable than Tredegar.
Tredegar has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LyondellBasell Industries has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LyondellBasell Industries has a net margin of 5.20% compared to Tredegar's net margin of -14.79%. LyondellBasell Industries' return on equity of 19.31% beat Tredegar's return on equity.
79.2% of Tredegar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of LyondellBasell Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Tredegar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of LyondellBasell Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, LyondellBasell Industries had 5 more articles in the media than Tredegar. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for LyondellBasell Industries and 2 mentions for Tredegar. LyondellBasell Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Tredegar's score of 1.46 indicating that LyondellBasell Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LyondellBasell Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Tredegar. Tredegar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LyondellBasell Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LyondellBasell Industries beats Tredegar on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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