VNTR vs. LIN, APD, TROX, MTX, KRO, LXU, VHI, NL, LXFR, and HGAS
Should you be buying Venator Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venator Materials include Linde (LIN), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), and Global Gas (HGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) and Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
82.8% of Linde shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Linde shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Linde has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Venator Materials received 84 more outperform votes than Linde when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.55% of users gave Linde an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Linde had 17 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Linde and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Venator Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Linde's score of 0.00 indicating that Linde is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Linde has a net margin of 19.26% compared to Linde's net margin of -8.65%. Venator Materials' return on equity of 17.49% beat Linde's return on equity.
Linde presently has a consensus price target of $468.83, suggesting a potential upside of 9.19%. Given Venator Materials' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Linde is more favorable than Venator Materials.
Linde has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Linde, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Linde beats Venator Materials on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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