FUL vs. AVNT, EMN, GGG, ITT, ITW, MTX, PPG, RPM, SCL, and TKR
Should you be buying H. B. Fuller stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H. B. Fuller include Avient (AVNT), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Graco (GGG), ITT (ITT), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Minerals Technologies (MTX), PPG Industries (PPG), RPM International (RPM), Stepan (SCL), and Timken (TKR).
H. B. Fuller vs. Its Competitors
H. B. Fuller (NYSE:FUL) and Avient (NYSE:AVNT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and profitability.
H. B. Fuller currently has a consensus price target of $67.25, suggesting a potential upside of 19.71%. Avient has a consensus price target of $45.60, suggesting a potential upside of 38.87%. Given Avient's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Avient is more favorable than H. B. Fuller.
95.9% of H. B. Fuller shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Avient shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of H. B. Fuller shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Avient shares are owned by company 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.
H. B. Fuller has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avient has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Avient has lower revenue, but higher earnings than H. B. Fuller. Avient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than H. B. Fuller, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Avient had 9 more articles in the media than H. B. Fuller. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Avient and 5 mentions for H. B. Fuller. Avient's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat H. B. Fuller's score of 0.15 indicating that Avient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
H. B. Fuller pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Avient pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. H. B. Fuller pays out 50.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avient pays out 84.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. H. B. Fuller has raised its dividend for 57 consecutive years and Avient has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Avient has a net margin of 3.65% compared to H. B. Fuller's net margin of 2.92%. H. B. Fuller's return on equity of 11.50% beat Avient's return on equity.
Summary
Avient beats H. B. Fuller on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FUL) was last updated on 8/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff