WLKP vs. SXT, GPRE, REX, LNZA, CDXS, FF, ORGN, GEVO, AMTX, and VGAS
Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Sensient Technologies (SXT), Green Plains (GPRE), REX American Resources (REX), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), Codexis (CDXS), FutureFuel (FF), Origin Materials (ORGN), Gevo (GEVO), Aemetis (AMTX), and Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial organic chemicals" industry.
Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) and Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, dividends and earnings.
78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Westlake Chemical Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Westlake Chemical Partners pays out 122.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Sensient Technologies has a consensus price target of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.73%. Given Sensient Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.
In the previous week, Westlake Chemical Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Sensient Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners and 3 mentions for Sensient Technologies. Sensient Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Westlake Chemical Partners' score of 1.44 indicating that Sensient Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sensient Technologies has a net margin of 6.16% compared to Westlake Chemical Partners' net margin of 4.64%. Sensient Technologies' return on equity of 11.40% beat Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity.
Sensient Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sensient Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sensient Technologies received 18 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 62.63% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Sensient Technologies beats Westlake Chemical Partners on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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