DOW vs. DD, EMN, ALB, NUE, NEM, PPG, GOLD, LYB, FNV, and NTR
Should you be buying DOW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DOW include DuPont de Nemours (DD), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Albemarle (ALB), Nucor (NUE), Newmont (NEM), PPG Industries (PPG), Barrick Gold (GOLD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Franco-Nevada (FNV), and Nutrien (NTR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
DOW vs.
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. 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.
DOW currently has a consensus price target of $57.44, suggesting a potential upside of 11.03%. DuPont de Nemours has a consensus price target of $78.36, suggesting a potential upside of 12.15%. Given DuPont de Nemours' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe DuPont de Nemours is more favorable than DOW.
In the previous week, DuPont de Nemours had 1 more articles in the media than DOW. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for DuPont de Nemours and 4 mentions for DOW. DuPont de Nemours' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat DOW's score of 0.91 indicating that DuPont de Nemours is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
63.0% of DOW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.9% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of DOW shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
DuPont de Nemours beats DOW on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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