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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), Flotek Industries (FTK), ARQ (ARQ), Zentek (ZTEK), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), and Nucor (NUE).
Platform Specialty Products vs.
Platform Specialty Products (NYSE:PAH) and Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Element Solutions has a consensus target price of $30.14, suggesting a potential upside of 33.59%. Given Element Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than Platform Specialty Products.
Platform Specialty Products has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Element Solutions has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Element Solutions has a net margin of 9.94% compared to Platform Specialty Products' net margin of -14.14%. Element Solutions' return on equity of 14.68% beat Platform Specialty Products' return on equity.
Platform Specialty Products received 167 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 44.70% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.
Element Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
94.5% of Platform Specialty Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of Element Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Platform Specialty Products shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of Element Solutions shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Element Solutions had 11 more articles in the media than Platform Specialty Products. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Element Solutions and 0 mentions for Platform Specialty Products. Element Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Platform Specialty Products' score of 0.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Element Solutions beats Platform Specialty Products on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PAH) was last updated on 4/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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