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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 GOLD

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 Barrick Gold (GOLD).

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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Element Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.87%. Given Element Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly 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

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$2.33B2.88$118.10M$1.1124.96
Platform Specialty Products$3.78B2.12-$296.20M$0.7636.46

In the previous week, Element Solutions had 7 more articles in the media than Platform Specialty Products. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Element Solutions and 0 mentions for Platform Specialty Products. Element Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.10 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

Platform Specialty Products received 171 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 44.35% of users gave Element Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Element SolutionsOutperform Votes
55
44.35%
Underperform Votes
69
55.65%
Platform Specialty ProductsOutperform Votes
226
60.43%
Underperform Votes
148
39.57%

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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Element Solutions has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Platform Specialty Products has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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%

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$7.99B$1.70B$2.82B$19.87B
Dividend YieldN/A1.11%5.26%3.50%
P/E Ratio36.4617.05108.2935.66
Price / Sales2.12584.36591,136.9517.95
Price / Cash4.3571.3123.4317.98
Price / Book2.786.353.324.59
Net Income-$296.20M$59.71M$149.36M$985.93M

Platform Specialty Products Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAH
Platform Specialty Products
N/A$27.71
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N/A+34.5%$7.99B$3.78B36.46N/A
ESI
Element Solutions
4.324 of 5 stars
$28.21
+1.8%
$31.00
+9.9%
+34.5%$6.83B$2.33B24.965,300Dividend Announcement
Positive News
CBT
Cabot
4.2157 of 5 stars
$108.64
+1.3%
$105.00
-3.4%
+37.6%$5.96B$3.99B15.904,300
WDFC
WD-40
2.4558 of 5 stars
$279.32
+0.6%
$301.00
+7.8%
+23.7%$3.78B$590.56M54.33580Analyst Forecast
OEC
Orion
4.6936 of 5 stars
$17.87
+1.6%
$26.33
+47.4%
-24.8%$1.03B$1.89B33.191,650
ASPI
ASP Isotopes
0.996 of 5 stars
$7.41
+3.6%
$4.50
-39.3%
+349.7%$527.30M$430,000.00-11.9376
ARQ
ARQ
2.9555 of 5 stars
$7.59
+0.9%
$10.00
+31.8%
N/A$319.01M$99.18M-752.00140Analyst Forecast
FTK
Flotek Industries
1.4967 of 5 stars
$7.82
-0.4%
$7.50
-4.1%
+97.0%$233.04M$188.06M30.16130
ZTEK
Zentek
0.0492 of 5 stars
$1.16
-2.4%
N/A+0.8%$120.72M$20,000.00-14.8524
FSI
Flexible Solutions International
N/A$3.92
-0.8%
N/A+136.1%$48.84M$38.33M11.8840Analyst Revision
GOLD
Barrick Gold
4.987 of 5 stars
$17.90
+0.1%
$23.90
+33.5%
+13.2%$31.29B$11.40B19.2924,600Options Volume

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This page (NYSE:PAH) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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