APD vs. VNTR, VALE, NEM, NUE, ECL, DOW, VNTRQ, FCX, LYB, and AEM
Should you be buying Air Products and Chemicals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Products and Chemicals include Venator Materials (VNTR), Vale (VALE), Newmont (NEM), Nucor (NUE), Ecolab (ECL), DOW (DOW), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), and Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) and Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 18.82% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -8.65%. Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity of 16.84% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.
Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Products and Chemicals presently has a consensus price target of $276.36, suggesting a potential upside of 16.93%. Given Air Products and Chemicals' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.
Air Products and Chemicals received 186 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Air Products and Chemicals has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Products and Chemicals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 22 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 2 mentions for Venator Materials. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.64 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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