PAH vs. ESI, CBT, AXTA, FMC, PAAS, OLN, CMC, GGB, ATI, and WFG
Should you be buying Platform Specialty Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Platform Specialty Products include Element Solutions (ESI), Cabot (CBT), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), FMC (FMC), Pan American Silver (PAAS), Olin (OLN), Commercial Metals (CMC), Gerdau (GGB), ATI (ATI), and West Fraser Timber (WFG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) and Platform Specialty Products (NYSE:PAH) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and community ranking.
Platform Specialty Products received 187 more outperform votes than Element Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.43% of users gave Platform Specialty Products an outperform vote while only 38.24% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.
Element Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $25.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.50%. Given Platform Specialty Products' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than Platform Specialty Products.
In the previous week, Element Solutions had 5 more articles in the media than Platform Specialty Products. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Element Solutions and 1 mentions for Platform Specialty Products. Platform Specialty Products' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Element Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Element Solutions has a net margin of 5.06% compared to Element Solutions' net margin of -14.14%. Platform Specialty Products' return on equity of 13.51% beat Element Solutions' return on equity.
Element Solutions has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Platform Specialty Products has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.3% of Element Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Platform Specialty Products shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Element Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Platform Specialty Products shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Element Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Platform Specialty Products. Platform Specialty Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Element Solutions beats Platform Specialty Products on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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