Critical Comparison: FUCHS (FUPBY) & Its Competitors

FUCHS (OTCMKTS:FUPBY) is one of 46 publicly-traded companies in the “CHEM – SPECIALTY” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare FUCHS to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for FUCHS and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FUCHS	1	0	0	0	1.00
FUCHS Competitors	386	2285	3239	124	2.51

As a group, “CHEM – SPECIALTY” companies have a potential upside of 23.01%. Given FUCHS’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FUCHS has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Dividends

FUCHS pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. FUCHS pays out 27.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “CHEM – SPECIALTY” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.4% and pay out 52.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Risk and Volatility

FUCHS has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FUCHS’s rivals have a beta of 1.23, indicating that their average share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares FUCHS and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
FUCHS	$3.81 billion	$326.79 million	21.30
FUCHS Competitors	$5.39 billion	$432.56 million	8.51

FUCHS’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than FUCHS. FUCHS is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares FUCHS and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FUCHS	8.46%	16.23%	11.55%
FUCHS Competitors	-4.90%	13.14%	4.69%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

82.1% of shares of all “CHEM – SPECIALTY” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of shares of all “CHEM – SPECIALTY” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

FUCHS rivals beat FUCHS on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About FUCHS

Fuchs SE develops, produces, and sells lubricants and related specialties in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and North and South America. The company offers automotive lubricants, such as biodegradable lubricants, central and mobile hydraulic oils, dry coatings, engine and gear oils, motorcycle/two wheelers, and service fluids, as well as various oils for agriculture sector. It also provides industrial lubricants, including chain lubricants, dry coatings, gear and hydraulic oils, machine oils, open gear lubricants, rapidly biodegradable lubricants, compressor and refrigeration oils, release agents, slideways oils, fluids and industrial oils, textile machine oils, and turbine oils. In addition, the company offers lubricating greases comprising assembly pastes, biodegradable greases, food grade greases, multi-purpose/long-life greases, pastes for extreme temperatures, perfluorinated pastes, and wheel bearing greases, as well as gear boxes, and greases for central lubricating system, extreme temperature, machine tools, plain and roller bearings, rail vehicles, spray cans or rattle cans, and solid lubricants. Further, it provides metal processing lubricants consisting of cleaners, corrosion preventives, cutting and grinding, forming lubricants, and quenching oils; and special application lubricants for application equipment, chain lubrication, dry coatings, food and beverage, gears, sugar processing, railway traffic, plain and roller bearings, glass manufacturing process, hot forming, maintenance, open gears, pastes, release agents, other specialties, special greases, and wind power plants. Additionally, the company offers open gear and surface coating services. The company was formerly known as Fuchs Petrolub SE and changed its name to Fuchs SE in July 2023. Fuchs SE was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany.