KOP vs. MATV, NEXA, LAC, MTUS, UUUU, CLW, EU, LAAC, ASTL, and EXK Should you be buying Koppers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Koppers include Mativ (MATV), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Lithium Americas (LAC), Metallus (MTUS), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Clearwater Paper (CLW), enCore Energy (EU), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), and Endeavour Silver (EXK). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Mativ (NYSE:MATV ) and Koppers (NYSE:KOP ) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Mativ pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Koppers pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Mativ pays out -6.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Koppers pays out 7.9% 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. Koppers has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Mativ is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Koppers has a consensus target price of $60.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.82%. Given Mativ's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Koppers is more favorable than Mativ.
Mativ has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Koppers has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Koppers has a net margin of 3.59% compared to Koppers' net margin of -15.56%. Mativ's return on equity of 17.19% beat Koppers' return on equity.
Koppers received 336 more outperform votes than Mativ when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.69% of users gave Koppers an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Mativ an outperform vote.
Koppers has higher revenue and earnings than Mativ. Mativ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Koppers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.0% of Mativ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Koppers shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Mativ shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Koppers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Mativ had 11 more articles in the media than Koppers. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mativ and 1 mentions for Koppers. Mativ's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Koppers' score of -0.11 indicating that Koppers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary Koppers beats Mativ on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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