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$6.46 +0.39 (+6.43%)
Closing price 08/22/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$6.58 +0.12 (+1.84%)
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KRO vs. TROX, KOP, TG, LYB, WLK, CBT, HWKN, OLN, IOSP, and CC

Should you be buying Kronos Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kronos Worldwide include Tronox (TROX), Koppers (KOP), Tredegar (TG), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), Cabot (CBT), Hawkins (HWKN), Olin (OLN), Innospec (IOSP), and Chemours (CC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.

Kronos Worldwide vs. Its Competitors

Tronox (NYSE:TROX) and Kronos Worldwide (NYSE:KRO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability and valuation.

Kronos Worldwide has a net margin of 3.57% compared to Tronox's net margin of -8.48%. Kronos Worldwide's return on equity of 8.04% beat Tronox's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tronox-8.48% -4.83% -1.40%
Kronos Worldwide 3.57%8.04%3.50%

Tronox currently has a consensus price target of $5.01, indicating a potential upside of 20.03%. Kronos Worldwide has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.97%. Given Tronox's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tronox is more favorable than Kronos Worldwide.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tronox
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
Kronos Worldwide
2 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

In the previous week, Tronox had 8 more articles in the media than Kronos Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Tronox and 5 mentions for Kronos Worldwide. Kronos Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Tronox's score of 0.69 indicating that Kronos Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tronox
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Kronos Worldwide
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Kronos Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Tronox pays out -12.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kronos Worldwide pays out 34.5% 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. Tronox is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Tronox has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kronos Worldwide has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tronox$3.07B0.22-$48M-$1.58-2.64
Kronos Worldwide$1.89B0.39$86.20M$0.5811.14

73.4% of Tronox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Tronox shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Tronox beats Kronos Worldwide on 10 of the 18 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 KRO 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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KRO vs. The Competition

MetricKronos WorldwideCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$698.37M$11.80B$3.36B$20.94B
Dividend Yield3.31%3.43%5.16%3.58%
P/E Ratio11.1427.69112.2429.11
Price / Sales0.396.1731,218,733,196,596,000.0052.98
Price / Cash4.647.4124.0723.54
Price / Book0.882.285.935.45
Net Income$86.20M$508.39M$148.61M$992.10M
7 Day Performance7.31%5.02%1.32%2.61%
1 Month Performance2.62%-1.27%2.43%1.46%
1 Year Performance-45.11%-1.24%33.97%10.72%

Kronos Worldwide Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KRO
Kronos Worldwide
3.1355 of 5 stars
$6.46
+6.4%
$7.75
+20.0%
-43.0%$698.37M$1.89B11.142,524Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
TROX
Tronox
4.4006 of 5 stars
$3.16
+0.5%
$5.01
+58.8%
-69.1%$497.77M$3.07B-2.006,500
KOP
Koppers
4.6411 of 5 stars
$28.32
-1.8%
$52.50
+85.4%
-19.8%$577.09M$2.09B39.342,082High Trading Volume
TG
Tredegar
0.1135 of 5 stars
$7.19
-11.6%
N/A+39.6%$283.91M$598.03M-3.801,500Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LYB
LyondellBasell Industries
4.4836 of 5 stars
$48.36
-1.4%
$63.08
+30.4%
-39.1%$15.78B$40.30B62.8020,000Positive News
WLK
Westlake
3.5627 of 5 stars
$76.96
-2.6%
$92.93
+20.8%
-37.5%$10.13B$12.14B-145.2015,540Positive News
Ex-Dividend
CBT
Cabot
4.5965 of 5 stars
$75.86
-2.8%
$92.33
+21.7%
-18.1%$4.15B$3.99B9.924,200Positive News
HWKN
Hawkins
3.203 of 5 stars
$177.50
+0.1%
$162.50
-8.5%
+40.3%$3.70B$974.43M43.721,035Positive News
Short Interest ↑
OLN
Olin
4.0965 of 5 stars
$18.74
-0.9%
$25.57
+36.4%
-45.9%$2.17B$6.54B-156.187,676Dividend Announcement
IOSP
Innospec
3.2443 of 5 stars
$81.17
-0.3%
N/A-21.8%$2.02B$1.85B104.062,450News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↑
CC
Chemours
3.7626 of 5 stars
$11.68
-4.2%
$17.38
+48.7%
-16.4%$1.82B$5.78B-4.176,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:KRO) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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