IOSP vs. ALB, CE, NEU, BCPC, SXT, FUL, ASH, KWR, MTX, and SCL
Should you be buying Innospec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Innospec include Albemarle (ALB), Celanese (CE), NewMarket (NEU), Balchem (BCPC), Sensient Technologies (SXT), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Ashland (ASH), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Minerals Technologies (MTX), and Stepan (SCL). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Innospec vs. Its Competitors
Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) and Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Albemarle has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innospec has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Albemarle received 440 more outperform votes than Innospec when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.95% of users gave Innospec an outperform vote while only 61.78% of users gave Albemarle an outperform vote.
92.9% of Albemarle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Innospec shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Albemarle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Innospec shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Albemarle currently has a consensus target price of $91.62, indicating a potential upside of 41.86%. Given Albemarle's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Albemarle is more favorable than Innospec.
Innospec has a net margin of 1.93% compared to Albemarle's net margin of -21.93%. Innospec's return on equity of 12.27% beat Albemarle's return on equity.
Innospec has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Albemarle. Albemarle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Innospec, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Albemarle pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Innospec pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Albemarle pays out -14.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Innospec pays out 155.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Albemarle has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Innospec has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Albemarle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Innospec had 2 more articles in the media than Albemarle. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Innospec and 3 mentions for Albemarle. Innospec's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Albemarle's score of 0.66 indicating that Innospec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Innospec beats Albemarle on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:IOSP) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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