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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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Minerals Technologies$2.12B0.88$167.10M-$0.77-76.21
Innospec$1.79B1.22$35.60M$1.0881.03

97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Innospec shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Minerals Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.32%. Given Minerals Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Minerals Technologies is more favorable than Innospec.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Minerals Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Innospec
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00

Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innospec has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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 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.

In the previous week, Innospec had 2 more articles in the media than Minerals Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Innospec and 6 mentions for Minerals Technologies. Minerals Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Innospec's score of 0.78 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
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Innospec
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Minerals Technologies-1.14% 10.90% 5.52%
Innospec 1.51%11.38%8.00%

Summary

Innospec beats Minerals Technologies on 11 of the 20 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 MTX 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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MTX vs. The Competition

MetricMinerals TechnologiesCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.86B$15.77B$3.28B$20.66B
Dividend Yield0.74%1.96%5.14%3.71%
P/E Ratio-76.2118.25103.3427.83
Price / Sales0.883.1831,218,733,196,560,400.0056.10
Price / Cash6.4313.3523.9217.94
Price / Book1.053.186.054.60
Net Income$167.10M$421.06M$147.89M$989.58M
7 Day Performance1.51%1.04%2.17%1.16%
1 Month Performance8.62%6.45%6.05%5.49%
1 Year Performance-30.84%8.69%25.74%10.60%

Minerals Technologies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTX
Minerals Technologies
3.8105 of 5 stars
$58.69
-0.8%
$80.00
+36.3%
-30.2%$1.86B$2.12B-76.213,891Positive News
IOSP
Innospec
3.5039 of 5 stars
$86.47
-2.5%
N/A-29.2%$2.21B$1.85B80.062,450
AVNT
Avient
4.5128 of 5 stars
$33.14
-3.7%
$46.80
+41.2%
-22.0%$3.15B$3.24B30.979,200Dividend Announcement
CBT
Cabot
4.4316 of 5 stars
$76.36
-2.6%
$92.67
+21.4%
-17.4%$4.21B$3.99B9.884,200Dividend Announcement
EMN
Eastman Chemical
4.8128 of 5 stars
$78.18
-1.7%
$98.54
+26.0%
-18.6%$9.19B$9.38B9.9514,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ESI
Element Solutions
4.2753 of 5 stars
$24.64
+2.7%
$25.75
+4.5%
-12.1%$5.82B$2.46B20.715,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
FUL
H. B. Fuller
3.9449 of 5 stars
$60.77
-2.4%
$67.25
+10.7%
-23.8%$3.36B$3.57B32.857,500Insider Trade
ITT
ITT
4.4414 of 5 stars
$158.84
-1.4%
$165.50
+4.2%
+17.0%$12.68B$3.63B25.2511,700Analyst Forecast
KMT
Kennametal
2.3319 of 5 stars
$23.59
-3.2%
$25.40
+7.7%
+2.6%$1.86B$2.05B16.978,447
SCL
Stepan
4.0616 of 5 stars
$57.55
-2.9%
N/A-32.7%$1.34B$2.18B23.392,396News Coverage
TKR
Timken
4.5248 of 5 stars
$75.55
-1.5%
$79.00
+4.6%
-6.3%$5.36B$4.57B16.2819,000News Coverage

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This page (NYSE:MTX) was last updated on 7/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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