Luxfer (LXFR) Competitors

CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) and Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

Is UAN or LXFR a better dividend stock?

CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $4.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Luxfer pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. CVR Partners pays out 95.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Luxfer pays out 157.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CVR Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of UAN or LXFR?

43.8% of CVR Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Luxfer shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Luxfer shares are owned by 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.

Is UAN or LXFR more profitable?

CVR Partners has a net margin of 9.97% compared to Luxfer's net margin of 2.37%. CVR Partners' return on equity of 17.65% beat Luxfer's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVR Partners	9.97%	17.65%	5.40%
Luxfer	2.37%	9.26%	5.13%

Which has more volatility and risk, UAN or LXFR?

CVR Partners has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luxfer has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor UAN or LXFR?

Luxfer received 79 more outperform votes than CVR Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.28% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 58.92% of users gave CVR Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CVR Partners	Outperform Votes 208 58.92%	Underperform Votes 145 41.08%
Luxfer	Outperform Votes 287 66.28%	Underperform Votes 146 33.72%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, UAN or LXFR?

CVR Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Luxfer. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luxfer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVR Partners	$527.39M	2.35	$172.43M	$4.97	14.56
Luxfer	$384.40M	1.00	-$1.90M	$0.33	43.45

Does the media favor UAN or LXFR?

In the previous week, CVR Partners had 5 more articles in the media than Luxfer. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CVR Partners and 3 mentions for Luxfer. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat CVR Partners' score of 0.88 indicating that Luxfer is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CVR Partners	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Luxfer	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

CVR Partners beats Luxfer on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.