DD vs. DOW, EMN, ALB, GOLD, NTR, PPG, LYB, FNV, NEM, and NUE
Should you be buying DuPont de Nemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DuPont de Nemours include DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Albemarle (ALB), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Nutrien (NTR), PPG Industries (PPG), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Franco-Nevada (FNV), Newmont (NEM), and Nucor (NUE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
DuPont de Nemours vs.
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
DOW presently has a consensus target price of $58.47, suggesting a potential upside of 16.15%. DuPont de Nemours has a consensus target price of $78.36, suggesting a potential upside of 15.91%. Given DOW's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe DOW is more favorable than DuPont de Nemours.
DOW received 100 more outperform votes than DuPont de Nemours when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.18% of users gave DuPont de Nemours an outperform vote while only 60.04% of users gave DOW an outperform vote.
DOW has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DuPont de Nemours has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DOW had 4 more articles in the media than DuPont de Nemours. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for DOW and 9 mentions for DuPont de Nemours. DuPont de Nemours' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat DOW's score of 0.11 indicating that DuPont de Nemours is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DuPont de Nemours has a net margin of 43.63% compared to DOW's net margin of 5.46%. DOW's return on equity of 16.22% beat DuPont de Nemours' return on equity.
DuPont de Nemours has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DOW. DuPont de Nemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DOW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. DuPont de Nemours pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. DOW pays out 70.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DuPont de Nemours pays out 12.5% 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. DuPont de Nemours has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
63.0% of DOW shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.9% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of DOW shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
DuPont de Nemours beats DOW on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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