DD vs. PPG, DOW, EMN, FMC, OLN, HUN, LXU, APD, LYB, and ALB
Should you be buying DuPont de Nemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DuPont de Nemours include PPG Industries (PPG), DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), Lsb Industries (LXU), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), and Albemarle (ALB).
DuPont de Nemours vs. Its Competitors
DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) and PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
DuPont de Nemours presently has a consensus target price of $85.92, suggesting a potential upside of 20.27%. PPG Industries has a consensus target price of $130.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.24%. Given DuPont de Nemours' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe DuPont de Nemours is more favorable than PPG Industries.
PPG Industries has a net margin of 6.49% compared to DuPont de Nemours' net margin of -0.60%. PPG Industries' return on equity of 24.84% beat DuPont de Nemours' return on equity.
74.0% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of PPG Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of PPG Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DuPont de Nemours pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. PPG Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. DuPont de Nemours pays out -863.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPG Industries pays out 58.2% 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. PPG Industries has increased its dividend for 54 consecutive years. PPG Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PPG Industries has higher revenue and earnings than DuPont de Nemours. DuPont de Nemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPG Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DuPont de Nemours has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPG Industries has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DuPont de Nemours had 1 more articles in the media than PPG Industries. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for DuPont de Nemours and 19 mentions for PPG Industries. PPG Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat DuPont de Nemours' score of 1.22 indicating that PPG Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PPG Industries beats DuPont de Nemours on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:DD) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
