VVV vs. KWR, NEU, CRS, ALTM, CBT, ESI, BCPC, HMY, ASH, and WFG
Should you be buying Valvoline stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valvoline include Quaker Chemical (KWR), NewMarket (NEU), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Cabot (CBT), Element Solutions (ESI), Balchem (BCPC), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Ashland (ASH), and West Fraser Timber (WFG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) and Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Quaker Chemical currently has a consensus target price of $231.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.64%. Valvoline has a consensus target price of $42.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.35%. Given Valvoline's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Quaker Chemical is more favorable than Valvoline.
77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Valvoline shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Valvoline shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valvoline has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Quaker Chemical had 2 more articles in the media than Valvoline. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Quaker Chemical and 4 mentions for Valvoline. Quaker Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Valvoline's score of 0.28 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Valvoline has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Valvoline's net margin of 6.16%. Quaker Chemical's return on equity of 136.59% beat Valvoline's return on equity.
Valvoline has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Quaker Chemical. Quaker Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valvoline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Quaker Chemical received 86 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.94% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote while only 57.34% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
Summary
Valvoline beats Quaker Chemical on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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