TG vs. KRO, KOP, LYB, WLK, CBT, HWKN, NX, HWM, MLI, and KALU
Should you be buying Tredegar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tredegar include Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Koppers (KOP), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), Cabot (CBT), Hawkins (HWKN), Quanex Building Products (NX), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Mueller Industries (MLI), and Kaiser Aluminum (KALU).
Tredegar vs.
Tredegar (NYSE:TG) and Kronos Worldwide (NYSE:KRO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability and risk.
Kronos Worldwide has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 44.40%. Given Kronos Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kronos Worldwide is more favorable than Tredegar.
Kronos Worldwide received 94 more outperform votes than Tredegar when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.69% of users gave Tredegar an outperform vote while only 58.07% of users gave Kronos Worldwide an outperform vote.
Tredegar has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kronos Worldwide has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kronos Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Tredegar. Tredegar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kronos Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.2% of Tredegar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Tredegar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Kronos Worldwide had 3 more articles in the media than Tredegar. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kronos Worldwide and 2 mentions for Tredegar. Kronos Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Tredegar's score of -0.46 indicating that Kronos Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kronos Worldwide has a net margin of 5.05% compared to Tredegar's net margin of -3.84%. Kronos Worldwide's return on equity of 11.74% beat Tredegar's return on equity.
Tredegar pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Kronos Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Tredegar pays out -65.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kronos Worldwide pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Tredegar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Kronos Worldwide beats Tredegar on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TG) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
