ELM vs. JMAT, VCT, ESNT, SYNT, SCPA, TET, ZTF, IOF, WCH, and ITX
Should you be buying Elementis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elementis include Johnson Matthey (JMAT), Victrex (VCT), Essentra (ESNT), Synthomer (SYNT), Scapa Group (SCPA), Treatt (TET), Zotefoams (ZTF), Iofina (IOF), Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), and Itaconix (ITX). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Elementis (LON:ELM) and Johnson Matthey (LON:JMAT) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Elementis pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Johnson Matthey pays an annual dividend of GBX 77 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Elementis pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Johnson Matthey pays out 13,050.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Johnson Matthey has higher revenue and earnings than Elementis. Johnson Matthey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elementis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elementis has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Johnson Matthey has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Elementis received 8 more outperform votes than Johnson Matthey when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Elementis an outperform vote while only 62.02% of users gave Johnson Matthey an outperform vote.
71.3% of Elementis shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Johnson Matthey shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Elementis shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Johnson Matthey shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Elementis currently has a consensus target price of GBX 164.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.71%. Johnson Matthey has a consensus target price of GBX 1,993.33, indicating a potential upside of 20.44%. Given Johnson Matthey's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Johnson Matthey is more favorable than Elementis.
In the previous week, Johnson Matthey had 1 more articles in the media than Elementis. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Johnson Matthey and 2 mentions for Elementis. Johnson Matthey's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Elementis' score of 0.30 indicating that Johnson Matthey is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Elementis has a net margin of 3.71% compared to Johnson Matthey's net margin of 0.84%. Johnson Matthey's return on equity of 4.39% beat Elementis' return on equity.
Summary
Elementis beats Johnson Matthey on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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