FMC vs. EMN, OLN, HUN, LXU, DOW, DD, PPG, BCPC, ASH, and CC
Should you be buying FMC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FMC include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), LSB Industries (LXU), DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), and Chemours (CC).
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Eastman Chemical and FMC both received 709 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 64.69% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 64.40% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote.
FMC has a net margin of 27.65% compared to FMC's net margin of 9.65%. FMC's return on equity of 14.06% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FMC pays out 25.9% 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. Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. FMC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
FMC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eastman Chemical. FMC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of FMC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus price target of $107.63, suggesting a potential upside of 6.85%. FMC has a consensus price target of $69.71, suggesting a potential upside of 16.96%. Given Eastman Chemical's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FMC is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 1 more articles in the media than FMC. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 14 mentions for FMC. FMC's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Eastman Chemical's score of 0.68 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats FMC on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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