NEU vs. RPM, CE, ALB, BCPC, FUL, ASH, SXT, KWR, IOSP, and MTX
Should you be buying NewMarket stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewMarket include RPM International (RPM), Celanese (CE), Albemarle (ALB), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Ashland (ASH), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Innospec (IOSP), and Minerals Technologies (MTX). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
RPM International (NYSE:RPM) and NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
RPM International has higher revenue and earnings than NewMarket. NewMarket is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RPM International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RPM International received 214 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.97% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 59.15% of users gave RPM International an outperform vote.
RPM International has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, NewMarket has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RPM International pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. RPM International pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NewMarket pays out 24.1% 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. RPM International has increased its dividend for 50 consecutive years and NewMarket has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. NewMarket is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
81.0% of RPM International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of NewMarket shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of RPM International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of NewMarket shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, NewMarket had 1 more articles in the media than RPM International. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for NewMarket and 3 mentions for RPM International. NewMarket's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat RPM International's score of 1.04 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RPM International presently has a consensus target price of $122.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.99%. Given RPM International's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe RPM International is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket has a net margin of 15.12% compared to RPM International's net margin of 8.02%. NewMarket's return on equity of 37.06% beat RPM International's return on equity.
Summary
RPM International and NewMarket tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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