MTX vs. CE, BCPC, NEU, FUL, ASH, SXT, IOSP, KWR, SCL, and FTK
Should you be buying Minerals Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Minerals Technologies include Celanese (CE), Balchem (BCPC), NewMarket (NEU), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Ashland (ASH), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Innospec (IOSP), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Stepan (SCL), and Flotek Industries (FTK). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Minerals Technologies vs.
Celanese (NYSE:CE) and Minerals Technologies (NYSE:MTX) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
98.9% of Celanese shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Celanese shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Minerals Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Minerals Technologies has a net margin of 7.89% compared to Celanese's net margin of -14.81%. Celanese's return on equity of 12.86% beat Minerals Technologies' return on equity.
Celanese has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Minerals Technologies has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Celanese received 467 more outperform votes than Minerals Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.33% of users gave Celanese an outperform vote while only 53.10% of users gave Minerals Technologies an outperform vote.
Celanese pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Minerals Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Celanese pays out -20.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Minerals Technologies pays out 8.5% 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. Celanese is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Celanese presently has a consensus price target of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 51.67%. Minerals Technologies has a consensus price target of $101.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.41%. Given Celanese's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Celanese is more favorable than Minerals Technologies.
Celanese has higher revenue and earnings than Minerals Technologies. Celanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Minerals Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Celanese had 63 more articles in the media than Minerals Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 67 mentions for Celanese and 4 mentions for Minerals Technologies. Minerals Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Celanese's score of 0.05 indicating that Minerals Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Celanese beats Minerals Technologies on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MTX) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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