LXFR vs. LXU, VHI, NL, VNTR, HGAS, LIN, APD, TROX, MTX, and KRO
Should you be buying Luxfer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luxfer include LSB Industries (LXU), Valhi (VHI), NL Industries (NL), Venator Materials (VNTR), Global Gas (HGAS), Linde (LIN), Air Products and Chemicals (APD), Tronox (TROX), Minerals Technologies (MTX), and Kronos Worldwide (KRO). These companies are all part of the "industrial inorganic chemicals" industry.
LSB Industries (NYSE:LXU) and Luxfer (NYSE:LXFR) are both small-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and earnings.
LSB Industries has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luxfer has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Luxfer had 1 more articles in the media than LSB Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Luxfer and 2 mentions for LSB Industries. Luxfer's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat LSB Industries' score of 1.03 indicating that LSB Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LSB Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Luxfer.
LSB Industries presently has a consensus target price of $10.69, indicating a potential upside of 8.83%. Given Luxfer's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe LSB Industries is more favorable than Luxfer.
LSB Industries has a net margin of 3.20% compared to LSB Industries' net margin of 0.08%. LSB Industries' return on equity of 6.59% beat Luxfer's return on equity.
Luxfer received 39 more outperform votes than LSB Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.20% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave LSB Industries an outperform vote.
73.7% of LSB Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Luxfer shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of LSB Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Luxfer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
LSB Industries beats Luxfer on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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