PAH vs. ESI, CBT, OLN, CMC, AGI, ICL, WFG, PAAS, ATI, and HMY
Should you be buying Platform Specialty Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Platform Specialty Products include Element Solutions (ESI), Cabot (CBT), Olin (OLN), Commercial Metals (CMC), Alamos Gold (AGI), ICL Group (ICL), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Pan American Silver (PAAS), ATI (ATI), and Harmony Gold Mining (HMY). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) and Platform Specialty Products (NYSE:PAH) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Element Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.24%. Given Platform Specialty Products' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than Platform Specialty Products.
In the previous week, Element Solutions had 7 more articles in the media than Platform Specialty Products. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Element Solutions and 0 mentions for Platform Specialty Products. Platform Specialty Products' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Element Solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Platform Specialty Products received 184 more outperform votes than Element Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.43% of users gave Platform Specialty Products an outperform vote while only 39.62% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.
Element Solutions has a net margin of 5.62% compared to Element Solutions' net margin of -14.14%. Platform Specialty Products' return on equity of 13.96% beat Element Solutions' return on equity.
92.3% of Element Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Platform Specialty Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Element Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Platform Specialty Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Element Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Platform Specialty Products. Platform Specialty Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Element Solutions has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Platform Specialty Products has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Element Solutions beats Platform Specialty Products on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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