Contrasting Enlightify (NYSE:ENFY) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN)

Enlightify (NYSE:ENFY) and Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Enlightify and Eastman Chemical, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Enlightify	1	0	0	0	1.00
Eastman Chemical	0	7	7	0	2.50

Eastman Chemical has a consensus price target of $80.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.66%. Given Eastman Chemical’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than Enlightify.

Profitability

This table compares Enlightify and Eastman Chemical’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Enlightify	-22.98%	-18.78%	-11.03%
Eastman Chemical	4.62%	8.88%	3.52%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Enlightify shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by institutional investors. 14.2% of Enlightify shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Eastman Chemical shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Enlightify has a beta of -4.7, meaning that its stock price is 570% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Enlightify and Eastman Chemical”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Enlightify	$79.21 million	0.00	-$28.41 million	($0.86)	-0.02
Eastman Chemical	$8.75 billion	0.90	$474.00 million	$3.45	20.00

Eastman Chemical has higher revenue and earnings than Enlightify. Enlightify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastman Chemical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Eastman Chemical beats Enlightify on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Enlightify

Enlightify, Inc. engages in the research, development, production, and sale of various types of fertilizers and agricultural products. It operates through the following segments: Jinong, Gufeng, and Yuxing. The Jinong segment includes fertilizer products, with focus on humic acid-based compound fertilizer. The Gufeng segment refers to the compound fertilizer, blended fertilizer, organic compound fertilizer, slow-release fertilizers, highly concentrated water-soluble fertilizers, and mixed organic-inorganic compound fertilizer. The Yuxing segment develops and produces agricultural products, such as top-grade fruits, vegetables, flowers, and colored seedlings. The company was founded by Tao Li on February 6, 1987 and is headquartered in Xi’an, China.

About Eastman Chemical

Eastman Chemical Company operates as a specialty materials company in the United States, China, and internationally. The company's Additives & Functional Products segment offers amine derivative-based building blocks, intermediates for surfactants, metam-based soil fumigants, and organic acid-based solutions; specialty coalescent and solvents, paint additives, and specialty polymers; and heat transfer and aviation fluids. It serves transportation, personal care, wellness, food, feed, agriculture, building and construction, water treatment, energy, consumables, durables, and electronics markets. Its Advanced Materials segment provides copolyesters, cellulosic biopolymers, cellulose esters, polyvinyl butyral sheets, and window and protective films for value-added end uses in the transportation, durables, electronics, building and construction, medical and pharma, and consumables markets. The company's Chemical Intermediates segment offers olefin and acetyl derivatives, ethylene, and commodity solvents; and primary non-phthalate and phthalate plasticizers, and niche non-phthalate plasticizers for industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and food and feed. Its Fibers segment provides cellulose acetate tow, triacetin, cellulose acetate flake, acetic acid, and acetic anhydride for use in filtration media primarily cigarette filters; natural and solution dyed acetate yarns, and staple fiber for use in consumables, and health and wellness markets; and wet-laid nonwoven media, specialty and engineered papers, and cellulose acetate fibers for transportation, industrial, agriculture and mining, and aerospace markets. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee.