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$75.81 +1.01 (+1.34%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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DD vs. AVNT, CE, CRS, DOW, EMN, ESI, ITT, LYB, WLK, and PPG

Should you be buying DuPont de Nemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DuPont de Nemours include Avient (AVNT), Celanese (CE), Carpenter Technology (CRS), DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Element Solutions (ESI), ITT (ITT), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), and PPG Industries (PPG).

DuPont de Nemours vs. Its Competitors

Avient (NYSE:AVNT) and DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.

DuPont de Nemours has higher revenue and earnings than Avient. DuPont de Nemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Avient$3.24B0.96$169.50M$1.0731.74
DuPont de Nemours$12.39B2.56$703M-$0.19-398.97

95.5% of Avient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Avient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Avient has a net margin of 3.09% compared to DuPont de Nemours' net margin of -0.60%. Avient's return on equity of 10.48% beat DuPont de Nemours' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Avient3.09% 10.48% 4.16%
DuPont de Nemours -0.60%7.58%4.94%

Avient presently has a consensus price target of $46.80, suggesting a potential upside of 37.80%. DuPont de Nemours has a consensus price target of $88.31, suggesting a potential upside of 16.49%. Given Avient's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Avient is more favorable than DuPont de Nemours.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Avient
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
DuPont de Nemours
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

Avient pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. DuPont de Nemours pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Avient pays out 100.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DuPont de Nemours pays out -863.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Avient is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Avient has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DuPont de Nemours has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, DuPont de Nemours had 14 more articles in the media than Avient. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for DuPont de Nemours and 9 mentions for Avient. DuPont de Nemours' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Avient's score of 0.23 indicating that DuPont de Nemours is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Avient
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
DuPont de Nemours
17 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Avient beats DuPont de Nemours on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DD vs. The Competition

MetricDuPont de NemoursCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$31.71B$11.80B$3.28B$21.17B
Dividend Yield2.16%3.41%5.16%3.59%
P/E Ratio-398.9721.35114.3828.43
Price / Sales2.565.9530,067,542,409,914,400.0072.64
Price / Cash10.907.6323.9423.19
Price / Book1.331.746.084.68
Net Income$703M$507.43M$147.72M$995.03M
7 Day Performance0.31%1.68%1.94%1.65%
1 Month Performance10.02%5.50%7.11%4.44%
1 Year Performance-5.46%-1.97%30.38%9.99%

DuPont de Nemours Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DD
DuPont de Nemours
4.6967 of 5 stars
$75.81
+1.3%
$88.31
+16.5%
-5.5%$31.71B$12.39B-398.9724,000Positive News
AVNT
Avient
4.4604 of 5 stars
$32.98
+1.5%
$46.80
+41.9%
-25.3%$3.02B$3.24B30.829,200Upcoming Earnings
CE
Celanese
4.2695 of 5 stars
$58.00
+1.2%
$66.50
+14.7%
-57.8%$6.35B$10.28B-3.8112,163News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CRS
Carpenter Technology
4.2893 of 5 stars
$281.19
-2.2%
$278.33
-1.0%
+96.4%$14.00B$2.76B39.834,600News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
DOW
DOW
3.5422 of 5 stars
$28.38
+0.1%
$33.47
+18.0%
-51.8%$20.06B$42.96B70.9436,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
Analyst Forecast
EMN
Eastman Chemical
4.7607 of 5 stars
$77.47
-0.4%
$97.08
+25.3%
-22.3%$8.94B$9.38B9.8614,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ESI
Element Solutions
4.6267 of 5 stars
$24.47
-1.0%
$27.13
+10.9%
-11.6%$5.93B$2.46B20.565,300Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ITT
ITT
4.5882 of 5 stars
$156.80
-1.5%
$173.25
+10.5%
+14.7%$12.34B$3.63B24.9311,700Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
LYB
LyondellBasell Industries
4.3956 of 5 stars
$62.66
-0.9%
$66.00
+5.3%
-34.1%$20.14B$40.30B19.3420,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
WLK
Westlake
4.1003 of 5 stars
$82.09
+0.8%
$93.77
+14.2%
-40.0%$10.53B$12.14B27.5515,540
PPG
PPG Industries
4.6878 of 5 stars
$114.65
+0.1%
$131.42
+14.6%
-9.0%$26.03B$15.85B24.5546,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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