VVV vs. KWR, HMY, ESI, CBT, NEU, AGI, WFG, ALTM, CRS, and BCPC
Should you be buying Valvoline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valvoline include Quaker Chemical (KWR), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Element Solutions (ESI), Cabot (CBT), NewMarket (NEU), Alamos Gold (AGI), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Carpenter Technology (CRS), and Balchem (BCPC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) and Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Valvoline has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Quaker Chemical. Quaker Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valvoline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Valvoline has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Quaker Chemical's net margin of 6.16%. Valvoline's return on equity of 136.59% beat Quaker Chemical's return on equity.
Quaker Chemical received 85 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.88% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote while only 57.34% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Valvoline had 12 more articles in the media than Quaker Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Valvoline and 16 mentions for Quaker Chemical. Valvoline's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Quaker Chemical's score of 0.29 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valvoline currently has a consensus target price of $42.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.79%. Quaker Chemical has a consensus target price of $236.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.93%. Given Quaker Chemical's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Quaker Chemical is more favorable than Valvoline.
96.1% of Valvoline shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Valvoline shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Quaker Chemical 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.
Valvoline has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Valvoline beats Quaker Chemical on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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