PPG vs. DOW, DD, EMN, FMC, OLN, HUN, LXU, RPM, AXTA, and SCCO
Should you be buying PPG Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPG Industries include DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), Eastman Chemical (EMN), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), LSB Industries (LXU), RPM International (RPM), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), and Southern Copper (SCCO).
DOW (NYSE:DOW) and PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
PPG Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DOW. PPG Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DOW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PPG Industries had 2 more articles in the media than DOW. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PPG Industries and 4 mentions for DOW. DOW's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat PPG Industries' score of 0.14 indicating that PPG Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.0% of DOW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of PPG Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of DOW shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of PPG Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
DOW received 19 more outperform votes than PPG Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.05% of users gave PPG Industries an outperform vote while only 59.31% of users gave DOW an outperform vote.
PPG Industries has a net margin of 7.74% compared to PPG Industries' net margin of 2.75%. DOW's return on equity of 22.98% beat PPG Industries' return on equity.
DOW currently has a consensus target price of $59.18, suggesting a potential upside of 2.69%. PPG Industries has a consensus target price of $155.47, suggesting a potential upside of 18.31%. Given DOW's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PPG Industries is more favorable than DOW.
DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. PPG Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. 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. PPG Industries pays out 43.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PPG Industries has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years.
DOW has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPG Industries has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PPG Industries beats DOW on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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