KWR vs. ALB, CE, BCPC, NEU, FUL, ASH, SXT, IOSP, MTX, and SCL
Should you be buying Quaker Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quaker Chemical include Albemarle (ALB), Celanese (CE), Balchem (BCPC), NewMarket (NEU), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Ashland (ASH), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), and Stepan (SCL). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Quaker Chemical vs.
Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) and Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Quaker Chemical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Albemarle. Albemarle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quaker Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Albemarle received 385 more outperform votes than Quaker Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Albemarle an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote.
Albemarle currently has a consensus target price of $109.68, suggesting a potential upside of 34.98%. Quaker Chemical has a consensus target price of $177.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.20%. Given Albemarle's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Albemarle is more favorable than Quaker Chemical.
In the previous week, Albemarle had 9 more articles in the media than Quaker Chemical. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Albemarle and 6 mentions for Quaker Chemical. Quaker Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Albemarle's score of -0.35 indicating that Quaker Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Albemarle has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quaker Chemical has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Albemarle's net margin of -21.93%. Quaker Chemical's return on equity of 10.10% beat Albemarle's return on equity.
Albemarle pays an annual dividend of $1.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Quaker Chemical pays an annual dividend of $1.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Albemarle pays out -14.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Quaker Chemical pays out 28.4% 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. Albemarle has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Quaker Chemical has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Albemarle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
92.9% of Albemarle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Albemarle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Quaker Chemical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Albemarle beats Quaker Chemical on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KWR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
