KRO vs. VHI, NL, MTX, TROX, SA, CGAU, GPRE, OEC, DQ, and FSM
Should you be buying Kronos Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kronos Worldwide include Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Tronox (TROX), Seabridge Gold (SA), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Green Plains (GPRE), Orion (OEC), Daqo New Energy (DQ), and Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Kronos Worldwide (NYSE:KRO) and Valhi (NYSE:VHI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Kronos Worldwide currently has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential downside of 30.07%. Given Kronos Worldwide's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kronos Worldwide is more favorable than Valhi.
Kronos Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Valhi pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Kronos Worldwide pays out -176.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Valhi pays out -76.2% 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. Kronos Worldwide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Kronos Worldwide had 2 more articles in the media than Valhi. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kronos Worldwide and 5 mentions for Valhi. Kronos Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Valhi's score of 0.00 indicating that Kronos Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valhi has a net margin of -0.63% compared to Kronos Worldwide's net margin of -2.95%. Valhi's return on equity of -0.95% beat Kronos Worldwide's return on equity.
15.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of Valhi shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Valhi shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kronos Worldwide received 68 more outperform votes than Valhi when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.46% of users gave Valhi an outperform vote while only 58.08% of users gave Kronos Worldwide an outperform vote.
Kronos Worldwide has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valhi has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valhi has higher revenue and earnings than Kronos Worldwide. Valhi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kronos Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kronos Worldwide and Valhi tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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