Comparing Daicel (OTCMKTS:DACHF) & Venator Materials (NYSE:VNTRQ)

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Daicel and Venator Materials”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Daicel	N/A	N/A	N/A	$78.72	0.11
Venator Materials	$2.17 billion	24.13	-$188.00 million	($3.28)	-149.39

Daicel has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Venator Materials. Venator Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daicel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

18.6% of Daicel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Venator Materials shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Venator Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Daicel and Venator Materials’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Daicel	N/A	N/A	N/A
Venator Materials	-18.19%	-47.15%	-8.22%

Summary

Daicel beats Venator Materials on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Daicel

Daicel Corporation engages in the materials, medical/healthcare, smart, safety, engineering plastics, and other businesses in Japan, China, and internationally. The company offers acetic acid, acetic acid derivative chemicals, acetate tow, acetic anhydride, thioglycolic acid, caprolactone derivatives, methyl 3-methoxyacrylate, cycloaliphatic epoxies, alkylamines comprising diethylhydroxyamine, and 1,3-butylene glycol, as well as cellulose acetate; and Actranza Lab, a drug delivery device. It also provides solutions for the electronics market, such as functional films and materials for use in smartphones, PCs, TVs, and in-vehicle displays; polymers and solvents for use in the semiconductor manufacturing process; optical lenses for use in VR, smartphones, and various sensors; printed electronic materials; and organic semiconductors. In addition, the company offers automobile airbags inflators comprising gas generation devices; pyro-fuses as safety systems for use in products, such as electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and transmission systems and robots; and gas generators for seat belt pretensioners, as well as engineering plastics and plastic compound products, high performance polymer, functional sheets, formed trays, and packaging films. Further, it reuses water for medical care, drinking water, food, and wastewater fields; and provides chiral columns, chiral reagents, pharma excipients, bellocea S7, flavocell(S-equol), konjac ceramide, polyglycerols, urolithin A, and excipients for food, as well as analytical and separation services. The company’s products are used in transportation, electronics, medical care, personal care, everyday life, and environment and energy applications. The company was formerly known as Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd. and changed its name to Daicel Corporation in October 2011. Daicel Corporation was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

About Venator Materials

Venator Materials PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets chemical products in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates in two segments, Titanium Dioxide and Performance Additives. The Titanium Dioxide segment offers titanium dioxide (TiO2), such as rutile, anatase, and ultrafine TiO2 products for use in coatings, printing inks, PVC window frames, plastic masterbatches, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, polyester and polyamide fibers, catalysts, and cosmetics products. The Performance Additives segment provides barium and zinc additives for use in coatings, films, and paper and glass fiber reinforced plastics; and colored inorganic pigments comprising iron oxides, ultramarines, specialty inorganic chemicals, and driers for construction, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, inks, catalyst, and laminates. This segment also offers wood protection chemicals for use in residential and commercial applications to prolong the life through protection from decay, fungal, and insect attack; timber treatment chemicals for use in decking, fencing, and other residential outdoor wood structures; and industrial construction products for use in telephone poles, and salt water piers and pilings. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Stockton-On-Tees, the United Kingdom. On May 14, 2023, Venator Materials PLC, along with its affiliates filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.