NEU vs. SXT, MEOH, WLK, CRS, ALTM, VVV, BCPC, CBT, ASH, and ESI Should you be buying NewMarket stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewMarket include Sensient Technologies (SXT), Methanex (MEOH), Westlake (WLK), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Arcadium Lithium (ALTM), Valvoline (VVV), Balchem (BCPC), Cabot (CBT), Ashland (ASH), and Element Solutions (ESI). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT ) and NewMarket (NYSE:NEU ) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Sensient Technologies received 74 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.14% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 62.63% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Sensient Technologies pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NewMarket has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, NewMarket had 3 more articles in the media than Sensient Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for NewMarket and 4 mentions for Sensient Technologies. Sensient Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat NewMarket's score of 1.09 indicating that NewMarket is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NewMarket has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sensient Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.29%. Given NewMarket's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket has a net margin of 14.82% compared to NewMarket's net margin of 6.16%. Sensient Technologies' return on equity of 38.99% beat NewMarket's return on equity.
90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.1% of NewMarket shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of NewMarket 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.
NewMarket has higher revenue and earnings than Sensient Technologies. NewMarket is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sensient Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary NewMarket beats Sensient Technologies on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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