KRO vs. CBT, HWKN, KOP, TG, LYB, WLK, TROX, MTX, LXU, and VHI
Should you be buying Kronos Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kronos Worldwide include Cabot (CBT), Hawkins (HWKN), Koppers (KOP), Tredegar (TG), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Westlake (WLK), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), LSB Industries (LXU), and Valhi (VHI).
Cabot (NYSE:CBT) and Kronos Worldwide (NYSE:KRO) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Cabot pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Kronos Worldwide pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Cabot pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kronos Worldwide pays out -330.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cabot has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Kronos Worldwide is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cabot has a net margin of 11.51% compared to Cabot's net margin of -1.50%. Kronos Worldwide's return on equity of 26.21% beat Cabot's return on equity.
Cabot presently has a consensus price target of $93.67, indicating a potential downside of 8.44%. Kronos Worldwide has a consensus price target of $11.67, indicating a potential downside of 17.90%. Given Kronos Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cabot is more favorable than Kronos Worldwide.
93.2% of Cabot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Cabot shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Kronos Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cabot has higher revenue and earnings than Kronos Worldwide. Kronos Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cabot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cabot received 94 more outperform votes than Kronos Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave Cabot an outperform vote while only 58.02% of users gave Kronos Worldwide an outperform vote.
Cabot has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kronos Worldwide has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cabot and Cabot both had 6 articles in the media. Cabot's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Kronos Worldwide's score of 0.66 indicating that Kronos Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cabot beats Kronos Worldwide on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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