Head to Head Survey: Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) vs. Wacker Chemie (OTCMKTS:WKCMF)

Arcadium Lithium (NYSE:ALTM) and Wacker Chemie (OTCMKTS:WKCMF) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

27.0% of Arcadium Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.4% of Wacker Chemie shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Arcadium Lithium shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Arcadium Lithium and Wacker Chemie”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Arcadium Lithium	$1.21 billion	5.21	$86.15 million	$0.08	73.06
Wacker Chemie	N/A	N/A	N/A	$4.02	17.50

Arcadium Lithium has higher revenue and earnings than Wacker Chemie. Wacker Chemie is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcadium Lithium, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Arcadium Lithium and Wacker Chemie’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Arcadium Lithium	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wacker Chemie	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Arcadium Lithium pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 102.7%. Wacker Chemie pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Arcadium Lithium pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Wacker Chemie pays out 9.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Arcadium Lithium and Wacker Chemie, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Arcadium Lithium	0	10	0	0	2.00
Wacker Chemie	0	0	0	0	0.00

Summary

Arcadium Lithium beats Wacker Chemie on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Arcadium Lithium

Arcadium Lithium plc engages in the production of lithium chemicals products in the Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. It offers battery-grade lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, butyllithium and high purity lithium metal for electric vehicles, electronics, agricultural, industrial, greases, polymers, pharmaceutical, battery, and aerospace applications. The company also owns interest in various properties located in Argentina, Canada, and Western Australia. Arcadium Lithium plc was founded in 1944 and is based in Shannon, Ireland.

About Wacker Chemie

Wacker Chemie AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides chemical products worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Wacker Silicones, Wacker Polymers, Wacker Biosolutions, and Wacker Polysilicon. The Wacker Silicones division offers silanes, siloxanes, silicone fluids, silicone emulsions, silicone elastomers, silicone resins, and pyrogenic silica. The Wacker Polymers division provides binders and polymeric additives, such as dispersible polymer powder and vinyl acetate-ethylene dispersions, which are used in construction, paper, adhesive, paint, coating, and basic chemical industries. The Wacker Biosolutions division offers customized biotech and catalog products for fine chemicals, such as pharmaceutical proteins, vaccines, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins, and acetylacetone for pharmaceutical actives, food additives, and agrochemicals. The Wacker Polysilicon division produces hyperpure polysilicon for use in semiconductor and solar sectors. Wacker Chemie AG was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Wacker Chemie AG operates as a subsidiary of Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH.