WLKP vs. SXT, GPRE, REX, LNZA, CDXS, FF, ORGN, GEVO, AMTX, and VGAS
Should you be buying Westlake Chemical Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westlake Chemical Partners include Sensient Technologies (SXT), Green Plains (GPRE), REX American Resources (REX), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), Codexis (CDXS), FutureFuel (FF), Origin Materials (ORGN), Gevo (GEVO), Aemetis (AMTX), and Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial organic chemicals" industry.
Sensient Technologies (NYSE:SXT) and Westlake Chemical Partners (NYSE:WLKP) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Sensient Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Westlake Chemical Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Sensient Technologies and 1 mentions for Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Sensient Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Sensient Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sensient Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Westlake Chemical Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Sensient Technologies pays out 76.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Westlake Chemical Partners pays out 122.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Sensient Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.00%. Given Westlake Chemical Partners' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sensient Technologies is more favorable than Westlake Chemical Partners.
Sensient Technologies has a net margin of 6.16% compared to Sensient Technologies' net margin of 4.64%. Westlake Chemical Partners' return on equity of 11.40% beat Sensient Technologies' return on equity.
Sensient Technologies received 18 more outperform votes than Westlake Chemical Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.07% of users gave Westlake Chemical Partners an outperform vote while only 62.63% of users gave Sensient Technologies an outperform vote.
90.9% of Sensient Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Sensient Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Westlake Chemical Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sensient Technologies has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westlake Chemical Partners has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sensient Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Westlake Chemical Partners. Westlake Chemical Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sensient Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sensient Technologies beats Westlake Chemical Partners on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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