WLKP vs. GPRE, SXT, HAYN, ZEUS, EU, LAC, UAN, LAAC, ASIX, and NFGC
Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Green Plains (GPRE), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Haynes International (HAYN), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), enCore Energy (EU), Lithium Americas (LAC), CVR Partners (UAN), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), AdvanSix (ASIX), and New Found Gold (NFGC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) and Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Green Plains received 112 more outperform votes than Westlake Chemical Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.07% of users gave Westlake Chemical Partners an outperform vote while only 64.30% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Green Plains had 1 more articles in the media than Westlake Chemical Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Green Plains and 6 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Green Plains' score of 0.00 indicating that Green Plains is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Green Plains has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Green Plains shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners 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.
Westlake Chemical Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Green Plains. Green Plains is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westlake Chemical Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Green Plains presently has a consensus price target of $37.40, suggesting a potential upside of 80.94%. Westlake Chemical Partners has a consensus price target of $26.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.23%. Given Westlake Chemical Partners' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Green Plains is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.
Westlake Chemical Partners has a net margin of 4.56% compared to Westlake Chemical Partners' net margin of -2.83%. Green Plains' return on equity of 6.25% beat Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity.
Summary
Westlake Chemical Partners beats Green Plains on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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