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Venator Materials (VNTR) Competitors

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$300.00 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 12/20/2024 ET)

VNTR vs. APD, MTX, TROX, KRO, VHI, LXU, NL, LXFR, 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), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), Global Gas (HGAS), and Linde (LIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.

Venator Materials vs.

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

29.0% of Venator Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Air Products and Chemicals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

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
Venator Materials$2.17B14.77-$188M-$1.74-172.41
Air Products and Chemicals$12.10B5.42$3.83B$17.1817.17

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
Venator Materials-8.65% -8.18% -1.70%
Air Products and Chemicals 31.64%16.34%7.56%

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

In the previous week, Air Products and Chemicals had 14 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Air Products and Chemicals and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Air Products and Chemicals' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.00 indicating that Air Products and Chemicals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Venator Materials Neutral
Air Products and Chemicals Positive

Air Products and Chemicals has a consensus price target of $331.53, indicating a potential upside of 12.39%. Given Air Products and Chemicals' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Air Products and Chemicals is more favorable than Venator Materials.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
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
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

Summary

Air Products and Chemicals beats Venator Materials on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VNTR vs. The Competition

MetricVenator MaterialsIndustrial inorganic chemicals IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$32.10B$25.57B$2.77B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A2.51%5.21%3.58%
P/E Ratio-172.4111.92112.7541.22
Price / Sales14.773.06770,699.5317.58
Price / Cash0.4163.8423.9621.28
Price / Book103.459.503.375.32
Net Income-$188M$680.75M$152.18M$989.67M
7 Day PerformanceN/A-2.42%-2.89%-3.45%
1 Month Performance11.11%-2.80%1.39%-3.73%
1 Year PerformanceN/A6.22%17.44%12.06%

Venator Materials Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VNTR
Venator Materials
N/A$300.00
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N/AN/A$32.10B$2.17B-172.413,685
APD
Air Products and Chemicals
4.4563 of 5 stars
$307.77
-1.5%
$331.53
+7.7%
+10.0%$68.44B$12.10B18.1823,000
MTX
Minerals Technologies
2.9253 of 5 stars
$79.89
+1.0%
N/A+11.8%$2.55B$2.12B16.764,070Positive News
TROX
Tronox
4.09 of 5 stars
$10.45
-1.6%
$18.00
+72.2%
-25.3%$1.65B$2.85B-22.126,500Positive News
KRO
Kronos Worldwide
3.352 of 5 stars
$10.21
-0.6%
$12.00
+17.5%
+0.3%$1.17B$1.86B12.682,196Positive News
VHI
Valhi
0.6283 of 5 stars
$23.92
-0.1%
$20.00
-16.4%
+45.3%$676.94M$1.92B7.672,196
LXU
LSB Industries
3.3805 of 5 stars
$8.73
-0.7%
$10.25
+17.4%
-16.8%$625.25M$520.11M-41.86570Positive News
NL
NL Industries
1.5467 of 5 stars
$8.47
+2.3%
$6.00
-29.2%
+46.9%$413.74M$150.69M7.062,820News Coverage
LXFR
Luxfer
3.4034 of 5 stars
$13.87
+1.8%
N/A+44.8%$371.51M$384.40M41.301,400Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
HGAS
Global Gas
N/A$0.17
-50.0%
N/AN/A$1.34MN/A0.002Gap Down
LIN
Linde
4.3893 of 5 stars
$429.64
-1.3%
$490.75
+14.2%
+4.4%$204.58B$33.03B33.0266,323Analyst Forecast
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This page (NYSE:VNTR) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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