Avient vs Axalta Coating Systems
AVNT and AXTA side by side, both in chemicals and allied products. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How AVNT and AXTA compare
Axalta Coating Systems is the larger company, worth 1.9 times as much as Avient ($7.8B against $4.1B).
On earnings, Avient is cheaper: it trades at 23.0× trailing earnings, against 23.5× for Axalta Coating Systems.
Avient grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (5.2% versus 0.14% for Axalta Coating Systems).
Axalta Coating Systems keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 6.5% compared with 5.3% at Avient.
Avient pays a dividend yielding 2.4%; Axalta Coating Systems does not pay one.
Avient scores higher on the StockData Score (13 against 12 for Axalta Coating Systems), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | AVNT | AXTA |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $4.1B | $7.8B |
| Share price | $44.92 | $36.41 |
| Change, 1 year | 50.7% | 25.6% |
| Change, 5 years | −25.2% | 9.3% |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.33 | 1.08 |
| Employees | 9,000 | 12K |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 13 (better) | 12 |
| Valuation score | 3 | 4 (better) |
| Growth score | 2 (better) | 1 |
| Performance score | 2 | 4 (better) |
| Health score | 2 | 3 (better) |
| Dividend score | 4 (better) | 0 |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | 23.0× (better) | 23.5× |
| P/S | 1.2× (better) | 1.5× |
| P/B | 1.7× (better) | 3.0× |
| EV/EBITDA | 10.6× (better) | 10.7× |
| P/FCF | 17.2× | 15.7× (better) |
| PEG | – | 0.89 |
| FCF yield | 5.8% | 6.4% (better) |
| Fair value | $53.94 | $40.27 |
| Margin of safety | 16.7% (better) | 9.6% |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | 5.2% (better) | 0.14% |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 8.0% (better) | 6.5% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | 59.0% (better) | −26.6% |
| EPS growth (TTM) | 57.3% (better) | −25.8% |
| EPS growth, 5Y average | −9.3% | 27.3% (better) |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 31.7% | 33.6% (better) |
| Operating margin | 9.7% | 12.4% (better) |
| Net margin | 5.3% | 6.5% (better) |
| FCF margin | 7.0% | 9.6% (better) |
| Return on equity | 7.5% | 13.6% (better) |
| Return on invested capital | 6.4% | 8.8% (better) |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | 0.74 (better) | 1.14 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.65 | 2.47 (better) |
| Interest coverage | – | 4.2× |
| Current ratio | 1.71 (better) | 1.53 |
| Altman Z-score | 1.60 | 2.45 (better) |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 7 (better) |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | 2.4% | – |
| Payout ratio | 55.7% | – |
| Years of dividend growth | 15 | – |
| Dividend growth, 5Y average | 5.8% | – |
| Shareholder yield | 2.4% (better) | 0.00% |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 105% | 106% |
| Held by insiders | 0.83% | 0.49% |
| Superinvestors holding | – | 1 |
| Short interest, % of float | 4.7% | 4.2% |
Go deeper
- AVNT stock overview
- AVNT income statement
- AVNT valuation and score
- AXTA stock overview
- AXTA income statement
- AXTA valuation and score
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