Critical Contrast: Orbia Advance (MXCHF) and Its Rivals

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Orbia Advance and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orbia Advance	N/A	N/A	16.50
Orbia Advance Competitors	$8.00 billion	$217.41 million	-2.11

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

Profitability

This table compares Orbia Advance and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orbia Advance	N/A	N/A	N/A
Orbia Advance Competitors	-123.48%	-12.59%	-2.33%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

14.5% of Orbia Advance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.1% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

Orbia Advance pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Orbia Advance pays out 59.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Chemicals” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.3% and pay out 108.1% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Orbia Advance is clearly a better dividend stock than its competitors, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Orbia Advance beats its competitors on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

Orbia Advance Company Profile

Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. provides products and solutions for precision agriculture, building and infrastructure, fluorinated, polymer, and connectivity sectors worldwide. The company offers irrigation systems, agricultural and greenhouse projects, digital farming technologies, and related services; and connectivity solutions, including conduits, cable-in conduit, and other HDPE products and solutions. It also provides water delivering solutions for drinking water supply, sanitation, and urban water resilience; fluorine and downstream products, comprising fluorspar mine and produces intermediates, refrigerants, and propellants for used in automotive, infrastructure, semiconductor, health, medicine, climate control, food cold chain, energy storage, computing, and telecommunications applications; and general and specialty resins, PVC, and compounds and additives for stabilizers and plasticizers, as well as compounds formulated from polyolefin, thermoplastic polyurethane, and thermoplastic elastomer polymers for various applications. The company was formerly known as Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. and changed its name to Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. in August 2019. Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.