EMN vs. DD, DOW, ALB, AVNT, MOS, IP, AU, SQM, TX, and X
Should you be buying Eastman Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastman Chemical include DuPont de Nemours (DD), DOW (DOW), Albemarle (ALB), Avient (AVNT), Mosaic (MOS), International Paper (IP), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), Ternium (TX), and United States Steel (X). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
DuPont de Nemours has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DuPont de Nemours received 173 more outperform votes than Eastman Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.42% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 63.19% of users gave DuPont de Nemours an outperform vote.
DuPont de Nemours pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. DuPont de Nemours pays out 185.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DuPont de Nemours has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Eastman Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Eastman Chemical's net margin of 2.75%. DuPont de Nemours' return on equity of 13.84% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
74.0% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of DuPont de Nemours shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, DuPont de Nemours had 3 more articles in the media than Eastman Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for DuPont de Nemours and 15 mentions for Eastman Chemical. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat DuPont de Nemours' score of 0.76 indicating that DuPont de Nemours is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eastman Chemical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DuPont de Nemours. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DuPont de Nemours, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DuPont de Nemours presently has a consensus target price of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.47%. Eastman Chemical has a consensus target price of $104.18, indicating a potential upside of 3.10%. Given DuPont de Nemours' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than DuPont de Nemours.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats DuPont de Nemours on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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