IOSP vs. BCPC, ASH, HUN, NGVT, HWKN, LOOP, GURE, OLN, FMC, and CALM
Should you be buying Innospec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Innospec include Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), Huntsman (HUN), Ingevity (NGVT), Hawkins (HWKN), Loop Industries (LOOP), Gulf Resources (GURE), Olin (OLN), FMC (FMC), and Cal-Maine Foods (CALM).
Balchem (NASDAQ:BCPC) 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 earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Balchem has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innospec has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.9% of Balchem shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Innospec shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Balchem shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Innospec 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.
In the previous week, Balchem and Balchem both had 5 articles in the media. Innospec's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Balchem's score of 1.19 indicating that Balchem is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Balchem currently has a consensus target price of $135.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.07%. Given Innospec's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Balchem is more favorable than Innospec.
Balchem has a net margin of 11.77% compared to Balchem's net margin of 7.14%. Balchem's return on equity of 13.69% beat Innospec's return on equity.
Balchem pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Innospec pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Balchem pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Innospec pays out 25.9% 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. Balchem has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Innospec has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Innospec has higher revenue and earnings than Balchem. Innospec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Balchem, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Balchem received 57 more outperform votes than Innospec when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.78% of users gave Balchem an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave Innospec an outperform vote.
Summary
Balchem beats Innospec on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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