OLN vs. FMC, HUN, ASH, CC, IOSP, NGVT, HWKN, CMC, WFG, and ICL
Should you be buying Olin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olin include FMC (FMC), Huntsman (HUN), Ashland (ASH), Chemours (CC), Innospec (IOSP), Ingevity (NGVT), Hawkins (HWKN), Commercial Metals (CMC), West Fraser Timber (WFG), and ICL Group (ICL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
FMC (NYSE:FMC) and Olin (NYSE:OLN) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
FMC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Olin. FMC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Olin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FMC has a net margin of 29.45% compared to FMC's net margin of 5.32%. FMC's return on equity of 14.22% beat Olin's return on equity.
FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 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%. FMC pays out 22.0% 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. FMC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
FMC presently has a consensus price target of $71.75, suggesting a potential upside of 22.73%. Olin has a consensus price target of $59.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.94%. Given Olin's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe FMC is more favorable than Olin.
91.9% of FMC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Olin shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of FMC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Olin shares are held by 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.
FMC has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Olin has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FMC received 229 more outperform votes than Olin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.95% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 59.40% of users gave Olin an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Olin had 15 more articles in the media than FMC. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Olin and 10 mentions for FMC. Olin's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat FMC's score of 0.61 indicating that FMC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
FMC beats Olin on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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