EMN vs. DOW, DD, PPG, FMC, OLN, HUN, LXU, ALB, HXL, and AVNT
Should you be buying Eastman Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastman Chemical include DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), LSB Industries (LXU), Albemarle (ALB), Hexcel (HXL), and Avient (AVNT).
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Eastman Chemical has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DOW. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DOW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. 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. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eastman Chemical has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
DOW has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
64.0% of DOW shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of DOW shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 1 more articles in the media than DOW. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 4 mentions for DOW. DOW's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Eastman Chemical's score of 0.23 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to Eastman Chemical's net margin of 2.75%. DOW's return on equity of 13.84% beat Eastman Chemical's return on equity.
DOW presently has a consensus target price of $59.18, indicating a potential upside of 2.69%. Eastman Chemical has a consensus target price of $106.24, indicating a potential upside of 4.84%. Given DOW's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than DOW.
DOW received 270 more outperform votes than Eastman Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 59.31% of users gave DOW an outperform vote.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats DOW on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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