ALTM vs. AXTA, ICL, CSWI, ESI, AVNT, MEOH, CC, PRM, NGVT, and BAK
Should you be buying Arcadium Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcadium Lithium include Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), ICL Group (ICL), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Element Solutions (ESI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), Chemours (CC), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Ingevity (NGVT), and Braskem (BAK). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Arcadium Lithium vs.
Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) and Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Axalta Coating Systems has a net margin of 6.22% compared to Arcadium Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Axalta Coating Systems' return on equity of 24.92% beat Arcadium Lithium's return on equity.
Arcadium Lithium currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 92.48%. Axalta Coating Systems has a consensus price target of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.18%. Given Arcadium Lithium's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Arcadium Lithium is more favorable than Axalta Coating Systems.
In the previous week, Axalta Coating Systems had 4 more articles in the media than Arcadium Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Axalta Coating Systems and 6 mentions for Arcadium Lithium. Axalta Coating Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Arcadium Lithium's score of 0.42 indicating that Axalta Coating Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arcadium Lithium has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axalta Coating Systems has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Axalta Coating Systems received 523 more outperform votes than Arcadium Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.56% of users gave Axalta Coating Systems an outperform vote while only 15.38% of users gave Arcadium Lithium an outperform vote.
Arcadium Lithium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Axalta Coating Systems. Arcadium Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axalta Coating Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Axalta Coating Systems beats Arcadium Lithium on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ALTM) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
