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HUN vs. FMC, OLN, LXU, DD, PPG, DOW, EMN, BCPC, HWKN, and ASH

Should you be buying Huntsman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntsman include FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), LSB Industries (LXU), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Balchem (BCPC), Hawkins (HWKN), and Ashland (ASH).

Huntsman vs.

Huntsman (NYSE:HUN) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.

FMC has a net margin of 8.03% compared to Huntsman's net margin of -3.13%. FMC's return on equity of 9.67% beat Huntsman's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Huntsman-3.13% -0.39% -0.18%
FMC 8.03%9.67%3.64%

In the previous week, Huntsman had 11 more articles in the media than FMC. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Huntsman and 16 mentions for FMC. FMC's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Huntsman's score of 0.52 indicating that FMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Huntsman
15 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
FMC
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Huntsman presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.37%. FMC has a consensus target price of $49.46, suggesting a potential upside of 28.44%. Given Huntsman's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Huntsman is more favorable than FMC.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Huntsman
2 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.90
FMC
1 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.21

Huntsman has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

FMC received 93 more outperform votes than Huntsman when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.18% of users gave Huntsman an outperform vote while only 63.78% of users gave FMC an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HuntsmanOutperform Votes
629
65.18%
Underperform Votes
336
34.82%
FMCOutperform Votes
722
63.78%
Underperform Votes
410
36.22%

FMC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Huntsman. Huntsman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Huntsman$5.98B0.34$101M-$0.91-12.74
FMC$4.12B1.17$341.10M$2.6214.70

Huntsman pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Huntsman pays out -109.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FMC pays out 88.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Huntsman has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Huntsman is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

84.8% of Huntsman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of FMC shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Huntsman shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of FMC 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

FMC beats Huntsman on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HUN vs. The Competition

MetricHuntsmanChemicals & allied products IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.01B$4.82B$3.09B$19.37B
Dividend Yield8.05%3.49%5.21%3.83%
P/E Ratio-10.5319.6468.0934.60
Price / Sales0.3467.9825,633,028,482,418,500.0035.27
Price / Cash11.149.7924.3417.51
Price / Book0.634.945.224.70
Net Income$101M$190.83M$156.63M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-6.49%0.25%2.52%-1.62%
1 Month Performance-11.42%8.98%5.65%7.65%
1 Year Performance-54.42%-11.52%17.20%4.34%

Huntsman Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HUN
Huntsman
4.6129 of 5 stars
$11.63
-0.8%
$15.00
+29.0%
-53.3%$2.02B$5.98B-10.577,000Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
FMC
FMC
4.8267 of 5 stars
$38.23
+3.9%
$49.46
+29.4%
-38.6%$4.78B$4.12B14.066,600Trending News
OLN
Olin
4.8987 of 5 stars
$22.87
+7.2%
$28.07
+22.7%
-64.9%$2.63B$6.55B25.417,780
LXU
LSB Industries
2.964 of 5 stars
$7.29
+5.5%
$9.75
+33.7%
-26.4%$523.99M$527.63M-34.71570Gap Up
DD
DuPont de Nemours
4.9123 of 5 stars
$71.31
+6.8%
$85.07
+19.3%
-14.7%$29.84B$12.52B42.7023,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PPG
PPG Industries
4.7792 of 5 stars
$114.18
+4.3%
$128.42
+12.5%
-16.8%$25.92B$15.68B24.1452,000Positive News
DOW
DOW
4.4884 of 5 stars
$30.97
+5.0%
$38.86
+25.5%
-51.2%$21.89B$42.63B19.7237,800Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
EMN
Eastman Chemical
4.8827 of 5 stars
$82.75
+6.8%
$99.15
+19.8%
-18.4%$9.55B$9.36B10.7714,500Positive News
Analyst Revision
BCPC
Balchem
3.7097 of 5 stars
$165.55
+0.6%
$180.00
+8.7%
+8.2%$5.40B$964.54M42.121,340News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
HWKN
Hawkins
3.7031 of 5 stars
$117.68
-1.6%
$142.50
+21.1%
+43.2%$2.46B$952.13M30.02810Analyst Revision
ASH
Ashland
4.3674 of 5 stars
$52.75
+5.3%
$68.60
+30.1%
-50.2%$2.41B$1.95B-79.923,900

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This page (NYSE:HUN) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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