DD vs. DOW, EMN, ALB, LYB, VMC, AEM, PPG, GOLD, MLM, and NTR
Should you be buying DuPont de Nemours stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DuPont de Nemours include DOW (DOW), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Albemarle (ALB), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), PPG Industries (PPG), Barrick Gold (GOLD), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), and Nutrien (NTR). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
64.0% of DOW shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of DOW shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of DuPont de Nemours shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DOW presently has a consensus price target of $59.18, suggesting a potential upside of 3.65%. DuPont de Nemours has a consensus price target of $91.09, suggesting a potential upside of 11.77%. Given DOW's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe DuPont de Nemours is more favorable than DOW.
DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. DuPont de Nemours pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. DOW pays out 166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DuPont de Nemours pays out 185.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DuPont de Nemours has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. DOW is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
DOW has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DuPont de Nemours has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DuPont de Nemours had 28 more articles in the media than DOW. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for DuPont de Nemours and 3 mentions for DOW. DOW's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat DuPont de Nemours' score of 0.25 indicating that DuPont de Nemours is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DOW received 93 more outperform votes than DuPont de Nemours when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.30% of users gave DuPont de Nemours an outperform vote while only 59.31% of users gave DOW an outperform vote.
DOW has higher revenue and earnings than DuPont de Nemours. DOW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DuPont de Nemours, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DuPont de Nemours' return on equity of 8.05% beat DOW's return on equity.
Summary
DuPont de Nemours beats DOW on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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