TROX vs. MTX, KRO, HBM, MP, SLVM, CALM, OR, EGO, SXT, and MTRN
Should you be buying Tronox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tronox include Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Sylvamo (SLVM), Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Sensient Technologies (SXT), and Materion (MTRN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) and Tronox (NYSE:TROX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Minerals Technologies had 11 more articles in the media than Tronox. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Minerals Technologies and 3 mentions for Tronox. Tronox's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Minerals Technologies' score of 0.45 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tronox has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of Tronox shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Tronox shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tronox received 29 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.16% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote while only 52.93% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Minerals Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Minerals Technologies has a net margin of 4.35% compared to Minerals Technologies' net margin of -11.09%. Tronox's return on equity of 10.87% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.
Minerals Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $68.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.00%. Tronox has a consensus price target of $14.86, suggesting a potential downside of 12.53%. Given Tronox's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Minerals Technologies is more favorable than Tronox.
Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Minerals Technologies pays out 13.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tronox pays out -24.8% 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. Minerals Technologies has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tronox is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Minerals Technologies beats Tronox on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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