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$1.62 +0.01 (+0.62%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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SLI vs. TROX, ECVT, WLKP, ASIX, OEC, ASPI, VHI, LXFR, ADUR, and ARQ

Should you be buying Standard Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Lithium include Tronox (TROX), Ecovyst (ECVT), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), AdvanSix (ASIX), Orion (OEC), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), Valhi (VHI), Luxfer (LXFR), Aduro Clean Technologies (ADUR), and ARQ (ARQ). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.

Standard Lithium vs.

Tronox (NYSE:TROX) and Standard Lithium (NYSE:SLI) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Standard Lithium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Tronox's net margin of -1.56%. Tronox's return on equity of -0.63% beat Standard Lithium's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Tronox-1.56% -0.63% -0.20%
Standard Lithium N/A -11.52%-10.25%

Tronox received 263 more outperform votes than Standard Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Standard Lithium an outperform vote while only 56.38% of users gave Tronox an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
TronoxOutperform Votes
265
56.38%
Underperform Votes
205
43.62%
Standard LithiumOutperform Votes
2
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

73.4% of Tronox shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.8% of Standard Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Tronox shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Standard Lithium 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.

Tronox pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Standard Lithium pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 123.5%. Tronox pays out -52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Standard Lithium pays out 339.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Tronox has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Lithium has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Tronox presently has a consensus target price of $9.64, suggesting a potential upside of 94.02%. Standard Lithium has a consensus target price of $4.40, suggesting a potential upside of 171.60%. Given Standard Lithium's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Standard Lithium is more favorable than Tronox.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Tronox
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Standard Lithium
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Standard Lithium has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tronox. Tronox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Lithium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Tronox$3.04B0.26-$48M-$0.95-5.23
Standard LithiumN/AN/A$108.82M$0.592.75

In the previous week, Tronox had 4 more articles in the media than Standard Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tronox and 2 mentions for Standard Lithium. Standard Lithium's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Tronox's score of 1.26 indicating that Standard Lithium is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Tronox
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Standard Lithium
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Standard Lithium beats Tronox on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SLI vs. The Competition

MetricStandard LithiumChemicals & allied products IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$314.18M$4.83B$7.27B$19.30B
Dividend YieldN/A3.49%11.00%3.84%
P/E Ratio2.7519.5253.7634.53
Price / SalesN/A71.0224,457.0434.83
Price / CashN/A9.7935.5017.51
Price / Book1.125.093.544.69
Net Income$108.82M$190.83M$4.30B$1.02B
7 Day PerformanceN/A1.79%-1.03%-1.74%
1 Month Performance10.96%10.81%6.32%7.50%
1 Year Performance-8.47%-10.58%177.99%4.15%

Standard Lithium Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SLI
Standard Lithium
2.36 of 5 stars
$1.62
+0.6%
$4.40
+171.6%
-8.5%$314.18MN/A2.75N/APositive News
Analyst Revision
TROX
Tronox
4.7887 of 5 stars
$5.75
+9.6%
$9.64
+67.6%
-73.2%$908.78M$3.04B-18.566,610Positive News
Ex-Dividend
Options Volume
High Trading Volume
ECVT
Ecovyst
4.036 of 5 stars
$7.36
+2.1%
$10.00
+35.9%
-21.5%$864.07M$706.15M16.00880Positive News
WLKP
Westlake Chemical Partners
3.2755 of 5 stars
$23.58
+2.2%
N/A+0.6%$830.94M$1.09B13.47150Positive News
ASIX
AdvanSix
3.9072 of 5 stars
$24.26
+5.0%
$30.50
+25.7%
+0.3%$650.43M$1.56B15.071,460Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
OEC
Orion
4.3088 of 5 stars
$10.73
+2.6%
$14.50
+35.2%
-56.6%$604.02M$1.88B14.301,600Gap Up
ASPI
ASP Isotopes
0.9909 of 5 stars
$6.67
+3.7%
$4.50
-32.5%
+53.2%$500.66M$4.14M-10.9376Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Up
VHI
Valhi
2.679 of 5 stars
$17.28
-1.5%
$20.00
+15.7%
-18.6%$488.91M$2.10B5.542,250News Coverage
Analyst Upgrade
LXFR
Luxfer
2.5341 of 5 stars
$12.21
+5.3%
N/A-8.0%$332.56M$399.50M37.001,400News Coverage
Gap Up
ADUR
Aduro Clean Technologies
N/A$6.26
-0.2%
$50.00
+698.7%
N/A$178.02M$258,792.000.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
ARQ
ARQ
3.263 of 5 stars
$4.15
+6.4%
$9.00
+116.9%
-36.3%$175.19M$108.96M-415.00140Gap Up

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This page (NYSE:SLI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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