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Platform Specialty Products (PAH) Competitors

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PAH vs. ESI, CBT, WDFC, OEC, ASPI, ARQ, FTK, ZTEK, FSI, and NUE

Should you be buying Platform Specialty Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Platform Specialty Products include Element Solutions (ESI), Cabot (CBT), WD-40 (WDFC), Orion (OEC), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), ARQ (ARQ), Flotek Industries (FTK), Zentek (ZTEK), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), and Nucor (NUE).

Platform Specialty Products vs.

Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) and Platform Specialty Products (NYSE:PAH) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.

In the previous week, Element Solutions had 8 more articles in the media than Platform Specialty Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Element Solutions and 0 mentions for Platform Specialty Products. Element Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Platform Specialty Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Element Solutions Positive
Platform Specialty Products Neutral

Element Solutions has a net margin of 11.08% compared to Platform Specialty Products' net margin of -14.14%. Element Solutions' return on equity of 14.42% beat Platform Specialty Products' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Element Solutions11.08% 14.42% 6.88%
Platform Specialty Products -14.14%8.48%2.23%

Element Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $31.40, indicating a potential upside of 24.16%. Given Element Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than Platform Specialty Products.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Element Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Platform Specialty Products
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

92.3% of Element Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Platform Specialty Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Element Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Platform Specialty Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Element Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Platform Specialty Products. Element Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Platform Specialty Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Element Solutions$2.41B2.55$118.10M$1.1122.78
Platform Specialty Products$3.78B1.93-$296.20M$0.7633.28

Element Solutions has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Platform Specialty Products has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Platform Specialty Products received 170 more outperform votes than Element Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.43% of users gave Platform Specialty Products an outperform vote while only 44.80% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Element SolutionsOutperform Votes
56
44.80%
Underperform Votes
69
55.20%
Platform Specialty ProductsOutperform Votes
226
60.43%
Underperform Votes
148
39.57%

Summary

Element Solutions beats Platform Specialty Products on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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PAH vs. The Competition

MetricPlatform Specialty ProductsChemical Products IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.29B$1.49B$2.84B$19.19B
Dividend YieldN/A1.23%5.16%3.62%
P/E Ratio33.2819.20112.6541.30
Price / Sales1.93217.94797,527.8917.58
Price / Cash4.3569.4524.3721.28
Price / Book2.545.023.405.32
Net Income-$296.20M$59.71M$154.69M$989.88M

Platform Specialty Products Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAH
Platform Specialty Products
N/A$25.29
-0.1%
N/A+14.1%$7.29B$3.78B33.28N/A
ESI
Element Solutions
4.4373 of 5 stars
$26.84
-1.6%
$31.40
+17.0%
+11.6%$6.50B$2.33B24.185,300Positive News
CBT
Cabot
4.8138 of 5 stars
$101.97
-1.4%
$105.00
+3.0%
+10.6%$5.55B$3.99B15.134,200Short Interest ↓
Positive News
WDFC
WD-40
2.2382 of 5 stars
$266.79
+0.1%
$301.00
+12.8%
+5.9%$3.62B$590.56M52.43580News Coverage
OEC
Orion
3.9604 of 5 stars
$17.07
-1.8%
$26.33
+54.3%
-41.9%$985.28M$1.91B32.211,650Positive News
ASPI
ASP Isotopes
0.6583 of 5 stars
$5.90
+18.0%
$4.50
-23.7%
+181.0%$421.20M$3.38M-9.6776High Trading Volume
ARQ
ARQ
3.5614 of 5 stars
$7.05
-0.6%
$10.00
+41.8%
N/A$296.33M$110.02M-709.00140Positive News
FTK
Flotek Industries
1.5543 of 5 stars
$8.02
-0.7%
$7.50
-6.5%
+97.8%$238.96M$178.46M30.85130Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ZTEK
Zentek
0.02 of 5 stars
$1.10
-2.7%
N/A-19.6%$114.44M$20,000.00-14.1324
FSI
Flexible Solutions International
N/A$3.86
-2.3%
N/A+116.5%$49.20M$38.49M11.7040
NUE
Nucor
4.9631 of 5 stars
$124.16
-0.9%
$183.75
+48.0%
-33.6%$29.41B$34.71B12.0032,000Analyst Forecast
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This page (NYSE:PAH) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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