VNTRQ vs. VNTR, FCX, ECL, RIO, SCCO, VALE, APD, NEM, DOW, and NUE
Should you be buying Venator Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venator Materials include Venator Materials (VNTR), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Ecolab (ECL), Rio Tinto Group (RIO), Southern Copper (SCCO), Vale (VALE), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Newmont (NEM), DOW (DOW), and Nucor (NUE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTRQ) and Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
0.5% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Venator Materials has a net margin of -8.65% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -18.19%. Venator Materials' return on equity of -8.18% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.
Venator Materials received 431 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users.
Venator Materials has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Venator Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Venator Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Venator Materials'average media sentiment score.
Summary
Venator Materials beats Venator Materials on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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