LXU vs. DOW, DD, PPG, EMN, FMC, OLN, HUN, MTX, KRO, and VHI
Should you be buying LSB Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LSB Industries include DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), Eastman Chemical (EMN), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), and Valhi (VHI).
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and LSB Industries (NYSE:LXU) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
DOW has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSB Industries has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
64.0% of DOW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of LSB Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of DOW shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of LSB Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, DOW had 1 more articles in the media than LSB Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DOW and 2 mentions for LSB Industries. DOW's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat LSB Industries' score of 0.25 indicating that LSB Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DOW currently has a consensus price target of $59.18, indicating a potential upside of 3.65%. LSB Industries has a consensus price target of $10.69, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Given DOW's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LSB Industries is more favorable than DOW.
LSB Industries has a net margin of 3.20% compared to LSB Industries' net margin of 2.75%. LSB Industries' return on equity of 8.05% beat DOW's return on equity.
DOW has higher revenue and earnings than LSB Industries. DOW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSB Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DOW received 731 more outperform votes than LSB Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.31% of users gave DOW an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave LSB Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
DOW beats LSB Industries on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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