ALTM vs. EMN, NEU, FUL, HGASW, VNTRQ, RS, CE, IP, ALB, and BG
Should you be buying Arcadium Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcadium Lithium include Eastman Chemical (EMN), NewMarket (NEU), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Global Gas (HGASW), Venator Materials (VNTRQ), Reliance (RS), Celanese (CE), International Paper (IP), Albemarle (ALB), and Bunge Global (BG). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Eastman Chemical has a consensus price target of $106.24, suggesting a potential upside of 7.87%. Given Eastman Chemical's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than Arcadium Lithium.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Arcadium Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Eastman Chemical's return on equity of 13.84% beat Arcadium Lithium's return on equity.
Arcadium Lithium pays an annual dividend of 6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 137.6%. Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Arcadium Lithium pays out 576.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Arcadium Lithium has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arcadium Lithium has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eastman Chemical. Arcadium Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 9 more articles in the media than Arcadium Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 1 mentions for Arcadium Lithium. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Arcadium Lithium's score of -0.30 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical received 707 more outperform votes than Arcadium Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Arcadium Lithium an outperform vote while only 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote.
27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats Arcadium Lithium on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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