FMC vs. EMN, OLN, HUN, LXU, DOW, DD, PPG, ASH, BCPC, and CC
Should you be buying FMC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FMC include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), LSB Industries (LXU), DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), and Chemours (CC).
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and FMC (NYSE:FMC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
FMC has a net margin of 27.65% compared to FMC's net margin of 10.16%. FMC's return on equity of 13.84% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of FMC shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of FMC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. FMC pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FMC pays out 25.9% 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. FMC has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. FMC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FMC has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 3 more articles in the media than FMC. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 6 mentions for FMC. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat FMC's score of 1.14 indicating that FMC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical and FMC both received 708 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 64.78% of users gave FMC an outperform vote while only 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote.
FMC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eastman Chemical. FMC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Chemical currently has a consensus price target of $106.24, indicating a potential upside of 2.84%. FMC has a consensus price target of $70.56, indicating a potential upside of 24.54%. Given Eastman Chemical's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FMC is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.
Summary
FMC beats Eastman Chemical on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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