SXT vs. NEU, ASH, BCPC, FUL, KWR, IOSP, MTX, SCL, FF, and FTK
Should you be buying Sensient Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sensient Technologies include NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), H.B. Fuller (FUL), Quaker Chemical (KWR), Innospec (IOSP), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Stepan (SCL), FutureFuel (FF), and Flotek Industries (FTK). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
NewMarket (NYSE:NEU) and Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Sensient Technologies has a consensus target price of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.03%. Given NewMarket's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than NewMarket.
NewMarket has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Sensient Technologies received 73 more outperform votes than NewMarket when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.25% of users gave NewMarket an outperform vote while only 62.63% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
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.
NewMarket pays an annual dividend of $10.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. NewMarket pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
61.1% of NewMarket shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 20.4% of NewMarket shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Sensient Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than NewMarket. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sensient Technologies and 2 mentions for NewMarket. NewMarket's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Sensient Technologies' score of 1.29 indicating that Sensient Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NewMarket and Sensient Technologies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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