Analyzing PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PECGF) and Its Rivals

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad	N/A	N/A	2.84
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad Competitors	$6.26 billion	$217.41 million	-11.38

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

Dividends

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.4%. PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad pays out 66.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Chemicals” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.2% and pay out 101.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

47.0% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of shares of all “Chemicals” companies are owned by company 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 PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad	N/A	N/A	N/A
PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad Competitors	-119.58%	-12.63%	-2.20%

Summary

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad beats its peers on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad Company Profile

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad, an investment holding company, engages in production and sale of chemicals. The company operates through Olefins and Derivatives, Fertilisers and Methanol, Specialties, and Other segments. It offers polymers comprising HDPE blown films, blow moulding, and pipes; linear low density polyethylene; and homopolymer, copolymer, and terpolymer; and PETRONAS Wellbore, PETRONAS Rig, and PETRONAS Tank solutions. In addition, the company offers ethylene, propylene, ethylene glycols, butyl glycol ethers, butanol (n-butanol and iso-butanol), butyl acetate, polyethylene glycols, ethonas FAE, nonylphenol ethoxylates, ethanolamines ethonas, and gas treating solvents; methanol, paraxylene, benzene, methyl tertiary butyl ether, and butadiene; ammonia and urea; PETRONAS Aireblue, a diesel exhaust fluid; and oxo-alcohols, as well as trades in and distributes chemical products. Further, it engages in processing feedstock into ammonia, syngas, carbon monoxide, paraxylene, benzene and other byproducts, n-butane, hydrocarbon by-products, isobutylene ethylene oxide derivatives, propylene derivatives, and related chemical products; and manufacturing of basic specialty polyols and propionates, formats, organic acids and formaldehyde, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, plasticizers, phthalic anhydride, trimethylolpropane, pentaerythritol, di- pentaerythritol, and sodium and calcium formate, preservative acids, nutritional salts, and other chemical products. Additionally, the company owns, operates, and manages Kertih marine facilities; processing natural gas into urea and ammonia; reselling, formulating, and manufacturing silicones, lube oil additives, and chemicals; and real estate business. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad operates as a subsidiary of Petroliam Nasional Berhad.