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Venator Materials (VNTR) Competitors

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$270.00 -405.00 (-60.00%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

VNTR vs. APD, MTX, TROX, KRO, VHI, LXU, LXFR, NL, HGAS, and LIN

Should you be buying Venator Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Venator Materials include Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Tronox (TROX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), Valhi (VHI), LSB Industries (LXU), Luxfer (LXFR), NL Industries (NL), Global Gas (HGAS), and Linde (LIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.

Venator Materials vs.

Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) and Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.

In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 49 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.00 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Air Products and Chemicals Positive
Venator Materials Neutral

Air Products and Chemicals currently has a consensus target price of $331.53, indicating a potential upside of 1.12%. Given Air Products and Chemicals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Air Products and Chemicals
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
Venator Materials
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Air Products and Chemicals has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Products and Chemicals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Air Products and Chemicals$12.10B6.02$3.83B$17.1819.08
Venator Materials$2.17B13.29-$188M-$1.74-155.17

Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 31.64% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -8.65%. Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity of 16.34% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Air Products and Chemicals31.64% 16.34% 7.56%
Venator Materials -8.65%-8.18%-1.70%

81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Air Products and Chemicals received 212 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.56% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Air Products and ChemicalsOutperform Votes
643
64.56%
Underperform Votes
353
35.44%
Venator MaterialsOutperform Votes
431
59.70%
Underperform Votes
291
40.30%

Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 15 of the 18 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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VNTR vs. The Competition

MetricVenator MaterialsIndustrial inorganic chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$28.89B$24.69B$2.82B$19.87B
Dividend YieldN/A2.39%5.26%3.50%
P/E Ratio-155.1710.14108.2935.66
Price / Sales13.2968.70591,136.9517.95
Price / Cash0.4166.7123.4317.98
Price / Book93.108.793.324.59
Net Income-$188M$635.09M$149.36M$985.93M
7 Day PerformanceN/A-2.68%0.62%0.45%
1 Month PerformanceN/A-8.03%1.39%1.05%
1 Year PerformanceN/A22.17%27.42%24.67%

Venator Materials Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VNTR
Venator Materials
N/A$270.00
-60.0%
N/A+6,749,900.0%$28.89B$2.17B-155.173,685Gap Down
APD
Air Products and Chemicals
4.6317 of 5 stars
$327.85
0.0%
$331.53
+1.1%
+20.4%$72.88B$12.10B19.0823,000Analyst Upgrade
MTX
Minerals Technologies
3.2456 of 5 stars
$79.95
+0.5%
N/A+28.0%$2.54B$2.17B16.944,070
TROX
Tronox
4.268 of 5 stars
$11.68
+0.9%
$18.00
+54.1%
-8.1%$1.83B$2.85B0.006,500Positive News
KRO
Kronos Worldwide
2.7616 of 5 stars
$11.35
+0.8%
$12.00
+5.7%
+33.7%$1.30B$1.67B14.012,196
VHI
Valhi
0.9691 of 5 stars
$26.52
+1.6%
$20.00
-24.6%
+98.7%$738.21M$1.92B8.502,196
LXU
LSB Industries
1.962 of 5 stars
$8.51
+1.2%
$10.25
+20.4%
+0.1%$602.33M$593.71M0.00570
LXFR
Luxfer
3.8707 of 5 stars
$14.08
-2.6%
N/A+65.6%$387.04M$405M42.671,400Positive News
NL
NL Industries
1.4623 of 5 stars
$7.93
+2.5%
$6.00
-24.3%
+55.5%$378.08M$161.30M6.612,820Positive News
HGAS
Global Gas
N/A$0.22
+29.4%
N/AN/A$1.38MN/A0.002Gap Up
LIN
Linde
3.1721 of 5 stars
$450.14
+1.4%
$490.75
+9.0%
+10.3%$211.44B$32.85B34.1866,323Analyst Forecast
Positive News

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