TROX vs. MTX, KRO, LXU, VHI, NL, LXFR, HGAS, LIN, VNTR, and APD
Should you be buying Tronox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tronox include Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), Global Gas (HGAS), Linde (LIN), Venator Materials (VNTR), and Air Products and Chemicals (APD). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Tronox (NYSE:TROX) and Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Tronox received 32 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.21% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Tronox currently has a consensus price target of $17.43, suggesting a potential downside of 10.81%. Minerals Technologies has a consensus price target of $68.50, suggesting a potential downside of 19.40%. Given Tronox's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Tronox is more favorable than Minerals Technologies.
73.4% of Tronox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Tronox shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned 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.
Minerals Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Minerals Technologies has a net margin of 4.35% compared to Tronox's net margin of -11.93%. Minerals Technologies' return on equity of 10.87% beat Tronox's return on equity.
Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Tronox pays out -22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Minerals Technologies pays out 13.8% 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. Tronox is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Minerals Technologies had 8 more articles in the media than Tronox. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Minerals Technologies and 3 mentions for Tronox. Tronox's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Minerals Technologies' score of 0.97 indicating that Tronox is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tronox has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Minerals Technologies beats Tronox on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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