KWR vs. NEU, ASH, BCPC, FUL, SXT, IOSP, MTX, SCL, FF, and FTK
Should you be buying Quaker Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quaker Chemical include NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Stepan (SCL), FutureFuel (FF), and Flotek Industries (FTK). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) and Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Quaker Chemical has a consensus target price of $221.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.14%. Given NewMarket's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Quaker Chemical is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket has higher revenue and earnings than Quaker Chemical. NewMarket is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quaker Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NewMarket has a net margin of 14.82% compared to NewMarket's net margin of 6.16%. Quaker Chemical's return on equity of 38.99% beat NewMarket's return on equity.
61.1% of NewMarket shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 20.4% of NewMarket shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Quaker Chemical shares are held 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.
Quaker Chemical received 160 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.35% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 57.94% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote.
NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Quaker Chemical pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Quaker Chemical pays out 27.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. NewMarket has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Quaker Chemical has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. NewMarket is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, NewMarket and NewMarket both had 2 articles in the media. Quaker Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat NewMarket's score of 0.55 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NewMarket has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
NewMarket beats Quaker Chemical on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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