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WLKP vs. CC, PCT, NGVT, UAN, BAK, ECVT, ASPI, TROX, ASIX, and OEC

Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Chemours (CC), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), Ingevity (NGVT), CVR Partners (UAN), Braskem (BAK), Ecovyst (ECVT), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), Tronox (TROX), AdvanSix (ASIX), and Orion (OEC). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.

Westlake Chemical Partners vs. Its Competitors

Chemours (NYSE:CC) and Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

76.3% of Chemours shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Chemours shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Chemours had 9 more articles in the media than Westlake Chemical Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Chemours and 0 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners. Chemours' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Westlake Chemical Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Chemours is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Chemours Positive
Westlake Chemical Partners Neutral

Chemours currently has a consensus target price of $18.13, suggesting a potential upside of 19.83%. Given Chemours' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Chemours is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Chemours
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Westlake Chemical Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Chemours has higher revenue and earnings than Westlake Chemical Partners. Chemours is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westlake Chemical Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Chemours$5.85B0.39$86M-$2.80-5.40
Westlake Chemical Partners$1.10B0.67$62.39M$1.4914.10

Westlake Chemical Partners has a net margin of 4.78% compared to Chemours' net margin of -7.19%. Chemours' return on equity of 35.14% beat Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Chemours-7.19% 35.14% 2.45%
Westlake Chemical Partners 4.78%6.38%4.00%

Chemours has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Chemours pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Westlake Chemical Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Chemours pays out -12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westlake Chemical Partners pays out 126.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Chemours beats Westlake Chemical Partners on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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WLKP vs. The Competition

MetricWestlake Chemical PartnersCHEM IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$740.20M$15.23B$3.75B$21.95B
Dividend Yield8.89%1.94%5.04%3.56%
P/E Ratio14.1050.94157.4529.65
Price / Sales0.673.0322,504.5497.88
Price / Cash4.3313.0724.3618.33
Price / Book0.893.137.124.61
Net Income$62.39M$424.10M$148.88M$1.01B
7 Day Performance0.21%-0.48%3.09%0.13%
1 Month Performance-4.04%-4.65%12.82%2.32%
1 Year Performance-5.81%3.52%63.47%13.85%

Westlake Chemical Partners Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WLKP
Westlake Chemical Partners
3.7727 of 5 stars
$21.01
-0.8%
N/A-5.0%$740.20M$1.10B14.10150
CC
Chemours
4.3231 of 5 stars
$15.56
-0.7%
$17.63
+13.3%
-19.2%$2.34B$5.78B-5.566,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
PCT
PureCycle Technologies
1.9413 of 5 stars
$13.12
+1.6%
$15.00
+14.3%
+59.2%$2.33BN/A-7.76120Positive News
NGVT
Ingevity
2.0016 of 5 stars
$54.35
-1.4%
$58.00
+6.7%
+48.9%$2.01B$1.41B-9.131,600
UAN
CVR Partners
1.5717 of 5 stars
$90.70
-0.1%
N/A+37.1%$1.55B$525.32M10.90300
BAK
Braskem
2.778 of 5 stars
$2.46
-5.7%
$4.40
+78.9%
-64.9%$1.04B$14.36B-0.978,382News Coverage
High Trading Volume
ECVT
Ecovyst
3.0353 of 5 stars
$8.75
-0.6%
$11.67
+33.4%
+26.9%$1.01B$704.50M-72.88880
ASPI
ASP Isotopes
2.5153 of 5 stars
$10.35
-1.9%
$7.75
-25.1%
+189.4%$969.68M$4.58M-16.9776
TROX
Tronox
4.8015 of 5 stars
$4.12
+1.9%
$5.12
+24.5%
-71.9%$640.44M$3.07B-2.606,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ASIX
AdvanSix
4.1748 of 5 stars
$19.36
-0.5%
$33.50
+73.0%
-36.9%$522.39M$1.52B6.821,450Positive News
OEC
Orion
4.5418 of 5 stars
$7.50
-5.9%
$11.67
+55.6%
-57.1%$447.51M$1.88B27.781,658News Coverage
Analyst Forecast

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