WLKP vs. GPRE, DRD, RYI, LAAC, LEU, HAYN, GATO, CLW, NFGC, and ASTL
Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Green Plains (GPRE), DRDGOLD (DRD), Ryerson (RYI), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Centrus Energy (LEU), Haynes International (HAYN), Gatos Silver (GATO), Clearwater Paper (CLW), New Found Gold (NFGC), and Algoma Steel Group (ASTL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) and Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Plains has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Green Plains had 6 more articles in the media than Westlake Chemical Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Green Plains and 1 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Green Plains' score of 0.67 indicating that Westlake Chemical Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Westlake Chemical Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Green Plains. Green Plains is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westlake Chemical Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westlake Chemical Partners has a net margin of 4.64% compared to Green Plains' net margin of -2.43%. Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity of 6.32% beat Green Plains' return on equity.
Green Plains has a consensus price target of $30.38, suggesting a potential upside of 64.99%. Given Green Plains' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Green Plains is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.
78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Green Plains shares are held by company 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.
Green Plains received 116 more outperform votes than Westlake Chemical Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.07% of users gave Westlake Chemical Partners an outperform vote while only 64.22% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote.
Summary
Westlake Chemical Partners beats Green Plains on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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