VNTR vs. APD, MTX, TROX, KRO, LXU, VHI, 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), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), 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 businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 40 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 2 mentions for Venator Materials. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.53 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Air Products and Chemicals currently has a consensus price target of $339.94, suggesting a potential upside of 9.65%. Given Air Products and Chemicals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.
81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are owned by 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.
Air Products and Chemicals received 218 more outperform votes than Venator Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.51% of users gave Air Products and Chemicals an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
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.
Air Products and Chemicals has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venator Materials has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Air Products and Chemicals has a net margin of 31.88% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -8.65%. Air Products and Chemicals' return on equity of 15.78% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.
Summary
Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:VNTR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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