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$59.60 -1.90 (-3.08%)
Closing price 10/24/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MTX vs. IOSP, AVNT, CBT, EMN, ESI, FUL, ITT, PPG, 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), PPG Industries (PPG), Stepan (SCL), and Timken (TKR).

Minerals Technologies vs. Its Competitors

Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) and Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

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 2.2%. Minerals Technologies pays out 733.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Innospec pays out 215.4% 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 raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Innospec has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Innospec is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Minerals Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Innospec. Innospec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Minerals Technologies$2.12B0.88$167.10M$0.06993.42
Innospec$1.85B1.03$35.60M$0.7897.83

Innospec has a net margin of 1.08% compared to Minerals Technologies' net margin of -0.08%. Innospec's return on equity of 10.89% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Minerals Technologies-0.08% 10.70% 5.33%
Innospec 1.08%10.89%7.70%

97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Innospec shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Innospec shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innospec has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Minerals Technologies had 12 more articles in the media than Innospec. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Minerals Technologies and 9 mentions for Innospec. Minerals Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Innospec's score of 0.24 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Minerals Technologies
6 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Innospec
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Minerals Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $84.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.93%. Given Minerals Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Minerals Technologies is more favorable than Innospec.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Minerals Technologies
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Innospec
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Summary

Innospec beats Minerals Technologies on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MTX vs. The Competition

MetricMinerals TechnologiesCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.93B$15.09B$3.71B$22.00B
Dividend Yield0.72%1.93%5.06%3.58%
P/E Ratio-2,978.7618.6921.6633.18
Price / Sales0.882.9921,747.6361.49
Price / Cash6.6813.0526.4324.54
Price / Book1.073.147.054.66
Net Income$167.10M$424.10M$148.62M$1.01B
7 Day Performance0.48%1.09%-1.43%2.24%
1 Month Performance-1.90%2.35%5.25%2.10%
1 Year Performance-22.36%3.70%53.45%14.01%

Minerals Technologies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTX
Minerals Technologies
3.4258 of 5 stars
$59.61
-3.1%
$84.00
+40.9%
-23.5%$1.93B$2.12B-2,978.763,891Trending News
Earnings Report
IOSP
Innospec
1.892 of 5 stars
$74.52
+0.8%
N/A-30.2%$1.84B$1.85B95.542,450
AVNT
Avient
4.334 of 5 stars
$31.02
+2.1%
$46.00
+48.3%
-32.0%$2.78B$3.24B24.239,200Analyst Forecast
CBT
Cabot
4.6941 of 5 stars
$69.59
+0.6%
$85.00
+22.1%
-35.4%$3.68B$3.99B9.104,200News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EMN
Eastman Chemical
4.8014 of 5 stars
$60.09
+3.2%
$85.54
+42.4%
-41.3%$6.68B$9.38B8.4414,000Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
ESI
Element Solutions
4.5836 of 5 stars
$25.10
+4.8%
$27.88
+11.1%
-3.0%$5.78B$2.46B25.105,300Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
FUL
H. B. Fuller
4.5436 of 5 stars
$58.01
+1.6%
$65.75
+13.3%
-17.9%$3.09B$3.57B31.367,500Analyst Upgrade
ITT
ITT
4.5884 of 5 stars
$171.77
+0.5%
$190.89
+11.1%
+23.2%$13.33B$3.63B27.0111,700Upcoming Earnings
PPG
PPG Industries
4.6126 of 5 stars
$98.83
+0.4%
$126.82
+28.3%
-18.7%$22.23B$15.85B22.4146,000Upcoming Earnings
SCL
Stepan
4.3012 of 5 stars
$47.55
+0.7%
N/A-36.6%$1.07B$2.18B18.722,396Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TKR
Timken
4.2515 of 5 stars
$72.59
+2.5%
$80.73
+11.2%
-7.7%$4.93B$4.57B16.5019,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:MTX) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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