LXFR vs. PCT, UAN, WLKP, ASIX, VHI, SLI, CBUS, AMTX, SDST, and VGAS
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include PureCycle Technologies (PCT), CVR Partners (UAN), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), AdvanSix (ASIX), Valhi (VHI), Standard Lithium (SLI), Cibus (CBUS), Aemetis (AMTX), Stardust Power (SDST), and Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) and PureCycle Technologies (NYSE:PCT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Luxfer and Luxfer both had 3 articles in the media. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat PureCycle Technologies' score of 0.69 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PureCycle Technologies has a consensus target price of $7.90, suggesting a potential upside of 1.94%. Given PureCycle Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PureCycle Technologies is more favorable than Luxfer.
Luxfer has a net margin of 0.08% compared to PureCycle Technologies' net margin of 0.00%. Luxfer's return on equity of 6.59% beat PureCycle Technologies' return on equity.
90.8% of Luxfer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of PureCycle Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Luxfer shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of PureCycle Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Luxfer has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PureCycle Technologies has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Luxfer has higher revenue and earnings than PureCycle Technologies.
Luxfer received 260 more outperform votes than PureCycle Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.27% of users gave PureCycle Technologies an outperform vote while only 66.20% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote.
Summary
Luxfer beats PureCycle Technologies on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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