LIN vs. VNTR, APD, TROX, MTX, KRO, LXU, VHI, NL, LXFR, and HGAS
Should you be buying Linde stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Linde include Venator Materials (VNTR), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), and Global Gas (HGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) and Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Linde has a net margin of 19.26% compared to Linde's net margin of -8.65%. Venator Materials' return on equity of 17.49% beat Linde's return on equity.
Linde has a consensus target price of $468.83, indicating a potential upside of 7.65%. Given Venator Materials' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Linde is more favorable than Venator Materials.
In the previous week, Linde had 11 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Linde and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Venator Materials' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Linde's score of 0.00 indicating that Linde is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Linde has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Linde, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Venator Materials received 84 more outperform votes than Linde when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.55% of users gave Linde an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Linde has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
29.0% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Linde shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Linde shares are held 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.
Summary
Linde beats Venator Materials on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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