OLN vs. FMC, HUN, ASH, BCPC, CC, IOSP, LTHM, AGI, PAAS, and ATI
Should you be buying Olin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Olin include FMC (FMC), Huntsman (HUN), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Chemours (CC), Innospec (IOSP), Livent (LTHM), Alamos Gold (AGI), Pan American Silver (PAAS), and ATI (ATI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Olin (NYSE:OLN) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Olin has higher revenue and earnings than FMC. Olin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FMC had 11 more articles in the media than Olin. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for FMC and 1 mentions for Olin. FMC's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Olin's score of -0.53 indicating that FMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Olin pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Olin pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FMC pays out 59.0% 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.
FMC received 229 more outperform votes than Olin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.79% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Olin an outperform vote.
Olin presently has a consensus target price of $54.43, suggesting a potential upside of 12.60%. FMC has a consensus target price of $88.94, suggesting a potential upside of 59.53%. Given FMC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FMC is more favorable than Olin.
85.7% of Olin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Olin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of FMC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
FMC has a net margin of 10.01% compared to Olin's net margin of 8.39%. Olin's return on equity of 24.36% beat FMC's return on equity.
Olin has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FMC beats Olin on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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