HUN vs. OLN, FMC, ASH, BCPC, IOSP, HWKN, NGVT, NXE, FUL, and AVNT
Should you be buying Huntsman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntsman include Olin (OLN), FMC (FMC), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Innospec (IOSP), Hawkins (HWKN), Ingevity (NGVT), NexGen Energy (NXE), H.B. Fuller (FUL), and Avient (AVNT). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Huntsman (NYSE:HUN) and Olin (NYSE:OLN) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Huntsman presently has a consensus target price of $26.73, indicating a potential upside of 6.10%. Olin has a consensus target price of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.21%. Given Olin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Olin is more favorable than Huntsman.
Huntsman pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Olin pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Huntsman pays out -192.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Olin pays out 28.8% 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. Huntsman is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
84.8% of Huntsman shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Olin shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Huntsman shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Olin shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Olin has a net margin of 5.32% compared to Huntsman's net margin of -1.49%. Olin's return on equity of 14.47% beat Huntsman's return on equity.
In the previous week, Huntsman had 11 more articles in the media than Olin. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Huntsman and 6 mentions for Olin. Olin's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Huntsman's score of 0.92 indicating that Olin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Olin has higher revenue and earnings than Huntsman. Huntsman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Huntsman received 137 more outperform votes than Olin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.49% of users gave Huntsman an outperform vote while only 59.65% of users gave Olin an outperform vote.
Huntsman has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olin has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Olin beats Huntsman on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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