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Air Products and Chemicals (APD) Competitors

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$305.55
-3.66 (-1.18%)
(As of 03:13 PM ET)

APD vs. LIN, VNTR, MTX, TROX, KRO, VHI, LXU, NL, LXFR, and HGAS

Should you be buying Air Products and Chemicals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Products and Chemicals include Linde (LIN), Venator Materials (VNTR), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Tronox (TROX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Valhi (VHI), LSB Industries (LXU), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), and Global Gas (HGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.

Air Products and Chemicals vs.

Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) and Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.

In the previous week, Linde had 21 more articles in the media than Air Products and Chemicals. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Linde and 11 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Linde's score of 0.77 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Linde
14 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Air Products and Chemicals
8 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Linde has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

82.8% of Linde shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Linde shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Linde has higher revenue and earnings than Air Products and Chemicals. Air Products and Chemicals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Linde, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Linde$32.85B6.70$6.20B$13.1735.01
Air Products and Chemicals$12.60B5.43$2.30B$11.5426.66

Linde currently has a consensus target price of $490.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.78%. Air Products and Chemicals has a consensus target price of $326.12, indicating a potential upside of 5.28%. Given Linde's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Linde is more favorable than Air Products and Chemicals.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Linde
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Air Products and Chemicals
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58

Air Products and Chemicals received 284 more outperform votes than Linde when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.48% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 63.85% of users gave Linde an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
LindeOutperform Votes
355
63.85%
Underperform Votes
201
36.15%
Air Products and ChemicalsOutperform Votes
639
64.48%
Underperform Votes
352
35.52%

Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 21.24% compared to Linde's net margin of 19.33%. Linde's return on equity of 18.16% beat Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Linde19.33% 18.16% 9.05%
Air Products and Chemicals 21.24%16.53%7.70%

Linde pays an annual dividend of $5.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Air Products and Chemicals pays an annual dividend of $7.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Linde pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Products and Chemicals pays out 61.4% 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. Air Products and Chemicals has increased its dividend for 49 consecutive years. Air Products and Chemicals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

Linde beats Air Products and Chemicals on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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APD vs. The Competition

MetricAir Products and ChemicalsIndustrial inorganic chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$68.41B$23.12B$2.74B$19.31B
Dividend Yield2.28%2.12%5.23%3.57%
P/E Ratio26.6694.82119.8841.78
Price / Sales5.432.62527,069.8817.31
Price / Cash17.5967.9223.5320.54
Price / Book4.361.713.375.21
Net Income$2.30B$533.22M$142.05M$982.74M
7 Day Performance-3.31%-2.15%1.67%2.36%
1 Month Performance7.80%-3.44%2.27%2.10%
1 Year Performance4.95%32.99%25.01%24.03%

Air Products and Chemicals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
APD
Air Products and Chemicals
4.5546 of 5 stars
$305.55
-1.2%
$326.12
+6.7%
+5.4%$67.93B$12.60B26.4823,000Upcoming Earnings
LIN
Linde
3.302 of 5 stars
$474.66
-0.3%
$484.18
+2.0%
+16.5%$226.65B$32.85B36.1266,323Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
VNTR
Venator Materials
N/A$533.63
+0.7%
N/AN/A$57.10B$2.17B-306.683,685Gap Down
MTX
Minerals Technologies
3.0885 of 5 stars
$76.04
-0.7%
N/A+27.4%$2.45B$2.12B16.114,070
TROX
Tronox
3.6625 of 5 stars
$12.09
-2.2%
$18.00
+48.9%
+2.8%$1.91B$3.08B-25.196,500Dividend Announcement
KRO
Kronos Worldwide
3.1565 of 5 stars
$11.38
-1.8%
$12.00
+5.4%
+46.1%$1.31B$1.78B1,138.002,196Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
VHI
Valhi
1.004 of 5 stars
$35.52
-1.9%
$20.00
-43.7%
+180.9%$1.00B$2.01B39.472,196
LXU
LSB Industries
1.7157 of 5 stars
$8.42
-4.1%
$10.25
+21.7%
-9.0%$602.40M$525.18M210.55570Analyst Forecast
NL
NL Industries
0.9142 of 5 stars
$7.86
+0.5%
$6.00
-23.7%
+63.9%$383.83M$157.38M17.092,820Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Cut
LXFR
Luxfer
3.6505 of 5 stars
$12.74
-0.9%
N/A+66.1%$349.25M$382.40M-67.051,400Analyst Revision
HGAS
Global Gas
N/A$0.22
flat
N/AN/A$1.81MN/A0.002Gap Down

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