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Ecovyst (ECVT) Competitors

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ECVT vs. AVNT, PCT, MEOH, PRM, CC, NGVT, UAN, BAK, TROX, and WLKP

Should you be buying Ecovyst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecovyst include Avient (AVNT), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), Methanex (MEOH), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Chemours (CC), Ingevity (NGVT), CVR Partners (UAN), Braskem (BAK), Tronox (TROX), and Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.

Ecovyst vs. Its Competitors

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

86.7% of Ecovyst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Avient shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Ecovyst shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Avient 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.

In the previous week, Avient had 6 more articles in the media than Ecovyst. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Avient and 0 mentions for Ecovyst. Avient's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Ecovyst's score of 0.00 indicating that Avient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ecovyst Neutral
Avient Positive

Ecovyst presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.21%. Avient has a consensus price target of $46.80, indicating a potential upside of 36.92%. Given Avient's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Avient is more favorable than Ecovyst.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ecovyst
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Avient
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71

Avient has higher revenue and earnings than Ecovyst. Ecovyst 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
Ecovyst$704.50M1.45-$6.65M-$0.10-86.80
Avient$3.24B0.97$169.50M$1.0731.94

Ecovyst has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Avient has a net margin of 3.09% compared to Ecovyst's net margin of -1.63%. Avient's return on equity of 10.48% beat Ecovyst's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ecovyst-1.63% 7.60% 2.99%
Avient 3.09%10.48%4.16%

Summary

Avient beats Ecovyst on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ECVT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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ECVT vs. The Competition

MetricEcovystCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.04B$15.98B$3.30B$20.79B
Dividend YieldN/A1.94%5.14%3.71%
P/E Ratio-86.8018.2292.7527.89
Price / Sales1.453.1831,218,733,196,606,700.0042.50
Price / Cash6.8313.5623.8722.63
Price / Book1.443.186.074.57
Net Income-$6.65M$421.06M$147.90M$988.81M
7 Day Performance3.33%-0.60%2.29%0.20%
1 Month Performance8.64%4.95%6.56%3.93%
1 Year Performance-6.87%8.89%26.87%10.27%

Ecovyst Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ECVT
Ecovyst
2.2577 of 5 stars
$8.68
-1.9%
$10.00
+15.2%
-6.8%$1.04B$704.50M-86.80880
AVNT
Avient
4.5248 of 5 stars
$32.36
-1.5%
$46.80
+44.6%
-21.6%$3.01B$3.24B30.249,200News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
PCT
PureCycle Technologies
1.3864 of 5 stars
$13.70
flat
$12.50
-8.8%
+168.0%$2.46BN/A-11.71120
MEOH
Methanex
4.6889 of 5 stars
$33.10
-3.0%
$44.88
+35.6%
-33.4%$2.30B$3.72B11.111,415Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
PRM
Perimeter Solutions
3.5865 of 5 stars
$13.93
-0.4%
$15.50
+11.3%
+99.8%$2.07B$560.97M17.63240Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CC
Chemours
4.4536 of 5 stars
$11.46
-2.2%
$17.22
+50.3%
-43.1%$1.75B$5.78B57.306,000News Coverage
Analyst Revision
NGVT
Ingevity
2.6108 of 5 stars
$43.06
-0.7%
$52.75
+22.5%
+9.1%$1.58B$1.41B-4.421,600News Coverage
UAN
CVR Partners
1.9949 of 5 stars
$88.83
+0.7%
N/A+16.8%$1.51B$525.32M12.46300News Coverage
Positive News
BAK
Braskem
2.1254 of 5 stars
$3.28
+2.5%
$9.75
+197.3%
-50.1%$1.28B$14.36B-0.788,382News Coverage
Positive News
TROX
Tronox
4.6788 of 5 stars
$5.07
-10.1%
$7.63
+50.4%
-65.6%$893.73M$3.07B-5.346,500Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
WLKP
Westlake Chemical Partners
2.598 of 5 stars
$22.05
-0.5%
N/A-2.8%$780.89M$1.14B14.80150

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