KWR vs. VVV, TFPM, IOSP, HL, SXT, HBM, MP, MEOH, OR, and TROX
Should you be buying Quaker Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quaker Chemical include Valvoline (VVV), Triple Flag Precious Metals (TFPM), Innospec (IOSP), Hecla Mining (HL), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Hudbay Minerals (HBM), MP Materials (MP), Methanex (MEOH), Osisko Gold Royalties (OR), and Tronox (TROX). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Valvoline (NYSE:VVV) 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 risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Valvoline currently has a consensus target price of $42.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.35%. Quaker Chemical has a consensus target price of $231.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.64%. Given Valvoline's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Quaker Chemical is more favorable than Valvoline.
Valvoline has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Quaker Chemical. Quaker Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valvoline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Quaker Chemical had 2 more articles in the media than Valvoline. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Quaker Chemical and 4 mentions for Valvoline. Quaker Chemical's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Valvoline's score of 0.42 indicating that Valvoline is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valvoline pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Quaker Chemical pays an annual dividend of $1.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Valvoline pays out 9.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Quaker Chemical pays out 27.7% 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. Quaker Chemical has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Quaker Chemical is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
96.1% of Valvoline shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Valvoline shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Quaker Chemical shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Quaker Chemical received 86 more outperform votes than Valvoline when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.94% of users gave Quaker Chemical an outperform vote while only 57.34% of users gave Valvoline an outperform vote.
Valvoline has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quaker Chemical has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valvoline has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Valvoline's net margin of 6.16%. Quaker Chemical's return on equity of 136.59% beat Valvoline's return on equity.
Summary
Valvoline beats Quaker Chemical on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding KWR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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