PX vs. APD, APAM, CNS, VCTR, FHI, AMK, PJT, DBRG, HPH, and GCMG
Should you be buying Praxair stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Praxair include Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Federated Hermes (FHI), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), Highest Performances (HPH), and GCM Grosvenor (GCMG).
Praxair (NYSE:PX) and Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Air Products and Chemicals received 82 more outperform votes than Praxair when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.20% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 63.92% of users gave Praxair an outperform vote.
Praxair has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 20.32% compared to Praxair's net margin of -1.00%. Praxair's return on equity of 24.14% beat Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity.
48.1% of Praxair shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Praxair shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Praxair presently has a consensus target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 32.01%. Air Products and Chemicals has a consensus target price of $274.77, suggesting a potential upside of 3.03%. Given Praxair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Praxair is more favorable than Air Products and Chemicals.
In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 14 more articles in the media than Praxair. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 1 mentions for Praxair. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Praxair's score of 0.00 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Products and Chemicals has higher revenue and earnings than Praxair. Praxair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Products and Chemicals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Praxair pays an annual dividend of $0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Air Products and Chemicals pays an annual dividend of $7.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Praxair pays out -650.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Air Products and Chemicals pays out 63.9% 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.
Summary
Air Products and Chemicals beats Praxair on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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