CC vs. FMC, OLN, BCPC, ASH, HUN, IOSP, HWKN, NGVT, PRM, and ECVT
Should you be buying Chemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemours include FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), Huntsman (HUN), Innospec (IOSP), Hawkins (HWKN), Ingevity (NGVT), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), and Ecovyst (ECVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals & allied products" industry.
Chemours (NYSE:CC) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
FMC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chemours. Chemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FMC received 82 more outperform votes than Chemours when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.69% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 60.99% of users gave Chemours an outperform vote.
Chemours presently has a consensus price target of $30.38, suggesting a potential upside of 24.90%. FMC has a consensus price target of $69.71, suggesting a potential upside of 16.96%. Given Chemours' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chemours is more favorable than FMC.
Chemours has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
76.3% of Chemours shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Chemours shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of FMC shares are owned 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.
FMC has a net margin of 27.65% compared to Chemours' net margin of -5.51%. Chemours' return on equity of 46.67% beat FMC's return on equity.
Chemours pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Chemours pays out -46.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FMC 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. Chemours is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, FMC had 7 more articles in the media than Chemours. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for FMC and 8 mentions for Chemours. FMC's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Chemours' score of 0.38 indicating that FMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FMC beats Chemours on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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