LIN vs. VNTR, APD, TROX, MTX, KRO, LXU, VHI, NL, LXFR, and HGAS
Should you be buying Linde stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Linde include Venator Materials (VNTR), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Luxfer (LXFR), and Global Gas (HGAS). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) and Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTR) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Linde has higher revenue and earnings than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Linde, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Linde has a net margin of 19.26% compared to Venator Materials' net margin of -8.65%. Linde's return on equity of 17.49% beat Venator Materials' return on equity.
Linde presently has a consensus target price of $468.83, suggesting a potential upside of 7.65%. Given Linde's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Linde is more favorable than Venator Materials.
82.8% of Linde shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.0% of Venator Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Linde shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Linde has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% 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.
In the previous week, Linde had 11 more articles in the media than Venator Materials. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Linde and 0 mentions for Venator Materials. Linde's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Venator Materials' score of 0.00 indicating that Linde is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Venator Materials received 84 more outperform votes than Linde when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.55% of users gave Linde an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Venator Materials an outperform vote.
Summary
Linde beats Venator Materials on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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