APD vs. VNTR, LIN, VALE, NEM, ECL, NUE, DOW, VNTRQ, FCX, and DD
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), Linde (LIN), Vale (VALE), Newmont (NEM), Ecolab (ECL), Nucor (NUE), DOW (DOW), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), and DuPont de Nemours (DD). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) and Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
29.0% of Venator Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 20.32% compared to Air Products and Chemicals' net margin of -8.65%. Venator Materials' return on equity of 16.56% beat Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity.
Air Products and Chemicals has a consensus target price of $277.43, suggesting a potential upside of 12.65%. Given Venator Materials' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.
In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 24 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Venator Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Air Products and Chemicals' score of 0.00 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Products and Chemicals received 192 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
Summary
Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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