ALB vs. EMN, AVNT, DD, DOW, RS, GFI, BG, CE, SQM, and IP
Should you be buying Albemarle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Albemarle include Eastman Chemical (EMN), Avient (AVNT), DuPont de Nemours (DD), DOW (DOW), Reliance (RS), Gold Fields (GFI), Bunge Global (BG), Celanese (CE), Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), and International Paper (IP). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Albemarle shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Albemarle shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albemarle has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Albemarle pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Albemarle pays out 58.2% 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. Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Albemarle has increased its dividend for 29 consecutive years. Eastman Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 6 more articles in the media than Albemarle. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 10 mentions for Albemarle. Albemarle's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Eastman Chemical's score of 0.26 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Albemarle received 54 more outperform votes than Eastman Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.45% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 63.42% of users gave Albemarle an outperform vote.
Eastman Chemical presently has a consensus target price of $104.18, indicating a potential upside of 3.78%. Albemarle has a consensus target price of $165.95, indicating a potential upside of 26.56%. Given Eastman Chemical's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Albemarle is more favorable than Eastman Chemical.
Albemarle has higher revenue and earnings than Eastman Chemical. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albemarle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Eastman Chemical's net margin of 4.02%. Eastman Chemical's return on equity of 14.53% beat Albemarle's return on equity.
Summary
Albemarle beats Eastman Chemical on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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