CC vs. AXTA, ICL, ESI, ALTM, CSWI, AVNT, MEOH, BAK, PRM, and NGVT
Should you be buying Chemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemours include Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), ICL Group (ICL), Element Solutions (ESI), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), Methanex (MEOH), Braskem (BAK), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), and Ingevity (NGVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Chemours vs.
Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) and Chemours (NYSE:CC) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Axalta Coating Systems currently has a consensus price target of $43.08, suggesting a potential upside of 19.63%. Chemours has a consensus price target of $23.56, suggesting a potential upside of 40.48%. Given Chemours' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chemours is more favorable than Axalta Coating Systems.
Axalta Coating Systems has a net margin of 7.41% compared to Chemours' net margin of 1.51%. Chemours' return on equity of 26.54% beat Axalta Coating Systems' return on equity.
Axalta Coating Systems has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemours has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chemours received 107 more outperform votes than Axalta Coating Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.69% of users gave Axalta Coating Systems an outperform vote while only 60.77% of users gave Chemours an outperform vote.
98.3% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Chemours shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Chemours shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Axalta Coating Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chemours. Axalta Coating Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemours, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chemours had 26 more articles in the media than Axalta Coating Systems. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Chemours and 4 mentions for Axalta Coating Systems. Chemours' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Axalta Coating Systems' score of 0.25 indicating that Chemours is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Axalta Coating Systems beats Chemours on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
