VNTR vs. APD, LIN, VNTRQ, SCCO, RIO, ECL, FCX, BHP, VALE, and NUE
Should you be buying Venator Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venator Materials include Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Linde (LIN), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Southern Copper (SCCO), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Ecolab (ECL), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), BHP Group (BHP), Vale (VALE), and Nucor (NUE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) and Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 12 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 1 mentions for Venator Materials. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.21 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
29.0% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Air Products and Chemicals has a consensus price target of $280.29, indicating a potential upside of 15.64%. Given Air Products and Chemicals' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.
Air Products and Chemicals received 185 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.39% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 18.82% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -8.65%. Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity of 16.84% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.
Air Products and Chemicals has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Products and Chemicals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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