Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) Vs. PKX, WPM, IP, CE, SQM, VEDL, EMN, TECK, SUZ, and MOS
Should you be buying Valvoline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valvoline include POSCO (PKX), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), International Paper (IP), Celanese (CE), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Vedanta (VEDL), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Teck Resources (TECK), Suzano (SUZ), and Mosaic (MOS). These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous products of petroleum & coal" industry.These companies are all part of the "miscellaneous products of petroleum & coal" industry.These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Valvoline vs.
Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) and Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Wheaton Precious Metals presently has a consensus price target of $55.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.85%. Valvoline has a consensus price target of $34.71, suggesting a potential downside of 1.27%. Given Wheaton Precious Metals' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Wheaton Precious Metals is more favorable than Valvoline.
Wheaton Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Valvoline pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wheaton Precious Metals pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Valvoline pays out 21.8% 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. Wheaton Precious Metals has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Valvoline has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valvoline has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
65.3% of Wheaton Precious Metals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Valvoline shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Valvoline shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Wheaton Precious Metals received 58 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.52% of users gave Wheaton Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 61.08% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
Wheaton Precious Metals has a net margin of 51.28% compared to Valvoline's net margin of 14.09%. Valvoline's return on equity of 2,978.72% beat Wheaton Precious Metals' return on equity.
In the previous week, Valvoline had 2 more articles in the media than Wheaton Precious Metals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Valvoline and 1 mentions for Wheaton Precious Metals. Valvoline's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Wheaton Precious Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wheaton Precious Metals has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Valvoline. Valvoline is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wheaton Precious Metals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Valvoline beats Wheaton Precious Metals on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) vs. Its Competitors
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