AVNT vs. EMN, ALB, SMG, CC, CSWI, FUL, NXE, HUN, AMR, and KWR
Should you be buying Avient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avient include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Albemarle (ALB), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Chemours (CC), CSW Industrials (CSWI), H.B. Fuller (FUL), NexGen Energy (NXE), Huntsman (HUN), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), and Quaker Chemical (KWR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Avient (NYSE:AVNT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Avient shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Avient shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus target price of $104.18, suggesting a potential upside of 3.52%. Avient has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.03%. Given Avient's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than Avient.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Eastman Chemical's net margin of 2.41%. Avient's return on equity of 13.84% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical and Eastman Chemical both had 15 articles in the media. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Avient's score of 0.56 indicating that Avient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Avient. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Avient pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient pays out 124.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Avient has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Eastman Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eastman Chemical received 682 more outperform votes than Avient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.42% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 43.64% of users gave Avient an outperform vote.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats Avient on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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