LXFR vs. LXU, VHI, NL, VNTR, HGAS, LIN, APD, TROX, MTX, and KRO
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Venator Materials (VNTR), Global Gas (HGAS), Linde (LIN), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), and Kronos Worldwide (KRO). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) and LSB Industries (NYSE:LXU) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
LSB Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Luxfer.
Luxfer has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSB Industries has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
LSB Industries has a consensus price target of $10.69, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Given LSB Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LSB Industries is more favorable than Luxfer.
In the previous week, Luxfer had 1 more articles in the media than LSB Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Luxfer and 2 mentions for LSB Industries. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat LSB Industries' score of 1.07 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LSB Industries has a net margin of 3.20% compared to Luxfer's net margin of 0.08%. Luxfer's return on equity of 6.59% beat LSB Industries' return on equity.
Luxfer received 39 more outperform votes than LSB Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.20% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave LSB Industries an outperform vote.
90.8% of Luxfer shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of LSB Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Luxfer shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of LSB Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
LSB Industries beats Luxfer on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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