WLKP vs. GPRE, SXT, HAYN, ZEUS, EU, ASTL, CRML, LAAC, DRD, and TGB
Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Green Plains (GPRE), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Haynes International (HAYN), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), enCore Energy (EU), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), Critical Metals (CRML), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), DRDGOLD (DRD), and Taseko Mines (TGB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) and Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Green Plains has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Westlake Chemical Partners has a net margin of 4.56% compared to Westlake Chemical Partners' net margin of -2.83%. Green Plains' return on equity of 6.25% beat Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity.
78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Green Plains shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Westlake Chemical Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Green Plains. Green Plains 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.
Green Plains received 112 more outperform votes than Westlake Chemical Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.07% of users gave Westlake Chemical Partners an outperform vote while only 64.30% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote.
Green Plains currently has a consensus target price of $37.40, suggesting a potential upside of 68.01%. Westlake Chemical Partners has a consensus target price of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.73%. Given Westlake Chemical Partners' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Green Plains is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.
In the previous week, Green Plains had 1 more articles in the media than Westlake Chemical Partners. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Green Plains and 3 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Green Plains' score of 0.00 indicating that Green Plains is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Westlake Chemical Partners beats Green Plains on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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