HUN vs. EMN, FMC, OLN, LXU, DOW, DD, PPG, ASH, BCPC, and CC
Should you be buying Huntsman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Huntsman include Eastman Chemical (EMN), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), LSB Industries (LXU), DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), and Chemours (CC).
Huntsman (NYSE:HUN) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Huntsman. Huntsman is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.8% of Huntsman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Huntsman shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Huntsman had 10 more articles in the media than Eastman Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Huntsman and 6 mentions for Eastman Chemical. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Huntsman's score of 0.56 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical received 89 more outperform votes than Huntsman when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.49% of users gave Huntsman an outperform vote while only 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Huntsman's net margin of -1.49%. Eastman Chemical's return on equity of 13.84% beat Huntsman's return on equity.
Huntsman presently has a consensus price target of $26.73, suggesting a potential upside of 7.77%. Eastman Chemical has a consensus price target of $106.24, suggesting a potential upside of 4.89%. Given Huntsman's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Huntsman is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.
Huntsman has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Huntsman pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Huntsman pays out -192.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% 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. Huntsman is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats Huntsman on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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