SXT vs. NEU, MEOH, GPRE, IOSP, TFPM, HL, EGO, KWR, TROX, and HBM
Should you be buying Sensient Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sensient Technologies include NewMarket (NEU), Methanex (MEOH), Green Plains (GPRE), Innospec (IOSP), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Hecla Mining (HL), Eldorado Gold (EGO), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Tronox (TROX), and Hudbay Minerals (HBM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) and NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
NewMarket has a net margin of 14.82% compared to Sensient Technologies' net margin of 6.16%. NewMarket's return on equity of 38.99% beat Sensient Technologies' return on equity.
Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NewMarket has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of NewMarket shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of NewMarket shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Sensient Technologies pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, NewMarket had 1 more articles in the media than Sensient Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for NewMarket and 1 mentions for Sensient Technologies. NewMarket's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Sensient Technologies' score of 1.28 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sensient Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.10%. Given Sensient Technologies' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket has higher revenue and earnings than Sensient Technologies. NewMarket is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sensient Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sensient Technologies received 75 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.04% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 62.63% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
NewMarket beats Sensient Technologies on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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