MTX vs. IOSP, AVNT, CBT, EMN, ESI, FUL, ITT, KMT, SCL, and TKR
Should you be buying Minerals Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Minerals Technologies include Innospec (IOSP), Avient (AVNT), Cabot (CBT), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Element Solutions (ESI), H. B. Fuller (FUL), ITT (ITT), Kennametal (KMT), Stepan (SCL), and Timken (TKR).
Minerals Technologies vs. Its Competitors
Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) and Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
In the previous week, Innospec had 1 more articles in the media than Minerals Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Innospec and 4 mentions for Minerals Technologies. Innospec's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Minerals Technologies' score of 0.84 indicating that Innospec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Minerals Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.36%. Given Minerals Technologies' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Minerals Technologies is more favorable than Innospec.
Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Innospec pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Minerals Technologies pays out -57.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Innospec pays out 155.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Minerals Technologies has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Innospec has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Innospec is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Innospec has a net margin of 1.51% compared to Minerals Technologies' net margin of -1.14%. Innospec's return on equity of 11.38% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.
Minerals Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Innospec. Minerals Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Innospec, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Innospec shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Innospec shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innospec has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Innospec beats Minerals Technologies on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NYSE:MTX) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
