CBT vs. ESI, OEC, HMY, VVV, NEU, CRS, ALTM, BCPC, WFG, and ICL
Should you be buying Cabot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cabot include Element Solutions (ESI), Orion (OEC), Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), Valvoline (VVV), NewMarket (NEU), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Balchem (BCPC), West Fraser Timber (WFG), and ICL Group (ICL). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) and Cabot (NYSE:CBT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Element Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.24%. Cabot has a consensus target price of $93.67, indicating a potential downside of 8.53%. Given Cabot's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than Cabot.
In the previous week, Cabot had 2 more articles in the media than Element Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cabot and 7 mentions for Element Solutions. Cabot's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Element Solutions' score of 1.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cabot has higher revenue and earnings than Element Solutions. Cabot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cabot has a net margin of 11.51% compared to Cabot's net margin of 5.62%. Element Solutions' return on equity of 26.21% beat Cabot's return on equity.
Element Solutions has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cabot has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.3% of Element Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Cabot shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Element Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Cabot shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cabot received 345 more outperform votes than Element Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave Cabot an outperform vote while only 39.62% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.
Element Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Cabot pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Element Solutions pays out 59.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cabot pays out 20.3% 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. Cabot has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Cabot is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Cabot beats Element Solutions on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CBT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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