VVV vs. KWR, HMY, NEU, CBT, ESI, AGI, ASH, BCPC, ICL, and WFG
Should you be buying Valvoline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valvoline include Quaker Chemical (KWR), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), NewMarket (NEU), Cabot (CBT), Element Solutions (ESI), Alamos Gold (AGI), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), ICL Group (ICL), and West Fraser Timber (WFG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) and Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Quaker Chemical presently has a consensus price target of $236.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.69%. Valvoline has a consensus price target of $42.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.09%. Given Valvoline's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Quaker Chemical is more favorable than Valvoline.
Valvoline has a net margin of 92.04% compared to Valvoline's net margin of 5.77%. Quaker Chemical's return on equity of 41.83% beat Valvoline's return on equity.
Quaker Chemical received 85 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.88% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote while only 57.34% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valvoline has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Valvoline shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Valvoline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valvoline has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Quaker Chemical. Valvoline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quaker Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Valvoline had 6 more articles in the media than Quaker Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Valvoline and 9 mentions for Quaker Chemical. Quaker Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Valvoline's score of 0.70 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Valvoline beats Quaker Chemical on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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