PPG vs. AXTA, DD, LYB, GOLD, AEM, NTR, TECK, WPM, FNV, and NUE
Should you be buying PPG Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPG Industries include Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), DuPont de Nemours (DD), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), Nutrien (NTR), Teck Resources (TECK), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Franco-Nevada (FNV), and Nucor (NUE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE:AXTA) and PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
PPG Industries has a net margin of 7.74% compared to PPG Industries' net margin of 4.77%. Axalta Coating Systems' return on equity of 22.98% beat PPG Industries' return on equity.
Axalta Coating Systems has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPG Industries has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PPG Industries received 451 more outperform votes than Axalta Coating Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.05% of users gave PPG Industries an outperform vote while only 63.03% of users gave Axalta Coating Systems an outperform vote.
PPG Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Axalta Coating Systems. PPG Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Axalta Coating Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Axalta Coating Systems had 4 more articles in the media than PPG Industries. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Axalta Coating Systems and 8 mentions for PPG Industries. Axalta Coating Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat PPG Industries' score of 0.86 indicating that PPG Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.3% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of PPG Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Axalta Coating Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of PPG Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Axalta Coating Systems presently has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.62%. PPG Industries has a consensus target price of $155.47, suggesting a potential upside of 15.64%. Given Axalta Coating Systems' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PPG Industries is more favorable than Axalta Coating Systems.
Summary
PPG Industries beats Axalta Coating Systems on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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