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