UAN vs. ESI, CSWI, AVNT, PCT, MEOH, PRM, CC, NGVT, BAK, and ECVT
Should you be buying CVR Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVR Partners include Element Solutions (ESI), CSW Industrials (CSWI), Avient (AVNT), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), Methanex (MEOH), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Chemours (CC), Ingevity (NGVT), Braskem (BAK), and Ecovyst (ECVT). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
CVR Partners vs. Its Competitors
CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) and Element Solutions (NYSE:ESI) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and risk.
CVR Partners has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Element Solutions has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $9.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Element Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CVR Partners pays out 126.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Element Solutions pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVR Partners has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CVR Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Element Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than CVR Partners. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Element Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Element Solutions had 14 more articles in the media than CVR Partners. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Element Solutions and 0 mentions for CVR Partners. Element Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat CVR Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Element Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
43.8% of CVR Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of Element Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CVR Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Element Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CVR Partners has a net margin of 13.95% compared to Element Solutions' net margin of 11.56%. CVR Partners' return on equity of 25.44% beat Element Solutions' return on equity.
Element Solutions has a consensus price target of $25.75, suggesting a potential upside of 5.49%. Given Element Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Element Solutions is more favorable than CVR Partners.
Summary
Element Solutions beats CVR Partners on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:UAN) was last updated on 7/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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