SXT vs. NEU, ASH, BCPC, FUL, KWR, IOSP, MTX, SCL, FF, and FTK
Should you be buying Sensient Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sensient Technologies include NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Innospec (IOSP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Stepan (SCL), FutureFuel (FF), and Flotek Industries (FTK). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) and Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
61.1% of NewMarket shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of NewMarket shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NewMarket has higher revenue and earnings than Sensient Technologies. NewMarket is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sensient Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NewMarket has a net margin of 14.82% compared to NewMarket's net margin of 6.16%. Sensient Technologies' return on equity of 38.99% beat NewMarket's return on equity.
Sensient Technologies has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.12%. Given NewMarket's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than NewMarket.
Sensient Technologies received 72 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sensient Technologies pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NewMarket has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
NewMarket has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NewMarket and NewMarket both had 4 articles in the media. Sensient Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat NewMarket's score of 0.62 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NewMarket beats Sensient Technologies on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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