NL vs. VHI, KRO, PPTA, AVD, VZLA, HDSN, LWLG, RYAM, ODC, and ARMN
Should you be buying NL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NL Industries include Valhi (VHI), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Perpetua Resources (PPTA), American Vanguard (AVD), Vizsla Silver (VZLA), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), Lightwave Logic (LWLG), Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM), Oil-Dri Co. of America (ODC), and Aris Mining (ARMN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Valhi (NYSE:VHI) and NL Industries (NYSE:NL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Valhi has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NL Industries has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valhi pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Valhi pays out -76.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NL Industries pays out -799.8% 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. NL Industries has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. NL Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, NL Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Valhi. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NL Industries and 0 mentions for Valhi. Valhi's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat NL Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that NL Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.8% of Valhi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of NL Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valhi shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of NL Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NL Industries has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential downside of 35.98%. Given Valhi's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NL Industries is more favorable than Valhi.
Valhi received 31 more outperform votes than NL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.25% of users gave Valhi an outperform vote while only 59.94% of users gave NL Industries an outperform vote.
NL Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Valhi. NL Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valhi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Valhi has a net margin of -0.63% compared to Valhi's net margin of -1.43%. Valhi's return on equity of -0.59% beat NL Industries' return on equity.
Summary
NL Industries beats Valhi on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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