AVNT vs. EMN, PAAS, CRS, SID, LTHM, MP, FUL, AMR, SSRM, and LAC
Should you be buying Avient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Avient include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (SID), Livent (LTHM), MP Materials (MP), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR), SSR Mining (SSRM), and Lithium Americas (LAC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Avient vs.
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Avient (NYSE:AVNT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Eastman Chemical received 671 more outperform votes than Avient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.19% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 42.31% of users gave Avient an outperform vote.
Avient has a net margin of 17.55% compared to Avient's net margin of 7.21%. Avient's return on equity of 14.82% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus target price of $94.87, suggesting a potential upside of 25.20%. Avient has a consensus target price of $43.83, suggesting a potential upside of 23.72%. Given Avient's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than Avient.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 8 more articles in the media than Avient. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 5 mentions for Avient. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Avient's score of 0.81 indicating that Avient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Avient pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Eastman Chemical pays out 53.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient pays out 15.6% 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. Eastman Chemical has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Avient has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Eastman Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.3% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Avient shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Avient shares are owned by company 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.
Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Avient. Avient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats Avient on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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