ECVT vs. HUN, CC, IOSP, HWKN, NGVT, PRM, SLI, LOOP, GURE, and FMC
Should you be buying Ecovyst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecovyst include Huntsman (HUN), Chemours (CC), Innospec (IOSP), Hawkins (HWKN), Ingevity (NGVT), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Standard Lithium (SLI), Loop Industries (LOOP), Gulf Resources (GURE), and FMC (FMC). These companies are all part of the "chemicals & allied products" industry.
Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) and Huntsman (NYSE:HUN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Huntsman had 4 more articles in the media than Ecovyst. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Huntsman and 2 mentions for Ecovyst. Ecovyst's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Huntsman's score of 1.24 indicating that Ecovyst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ecovyst presently has a consensus price target of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 58.39%. Huntsman has a consensus price target of $27.18, indicating a potential upside of 14.31%. Given Ecovyst's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ecovyst is more favorable than Huntsman.
Huntsman has higher revenue and earnings than Ecovyst. Huntsman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecovyst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.7% of Ecovyst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.8% of Huntsman shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ecovyst shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Huntsman shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ecovyst has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Huntsman's net margin of -1.49%. Ecovyst's return on equity of 10.83% beat Huntsman's return on equity.
Ecovyst has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huntsman has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntsman received 608 more outperform votes than Ecovyst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.52% of users gave Huntsman an outperform vote while only 35.29% of users gave Ecovyst an outperform vote.
Summary
Ecovyst beats Huntsman on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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