Fifteen European Union Chemical Companies – 2019 Performance Data

 

The table below shows eleven sets of performance data for fifteen European Union chemical companies.  These companies represent many of the largest publicly-traded chemical companies headquartered in the European Union. 

Share price is a recent share price in dollars.  p/e is share price divided by earnings per share.  % yield is the dividend yield.  The price/cash column shows how much an investor is paying for an additional dollar of cash flow.   Lower values are better for the investor.  Roe, gpm, and npm stand for return on equity (roe), gross profit margin (gpm), and net profit margin (npm).  LT debt/eqty% is the company’s long term (LT) debt as percentage of the company equity.  This measurement reflects debt burden – the higher the value, the higher the debt burden.  Sales/empl is the sales revenue per employee (in millions of $).  This value can indicate companies operating more efficiently when values are higher.  Shares are the number of company shares (in billions).  And revs is the company’s sales revenues (in billions of $).

company	share price	p/e	% yield	price/ cash	roe	gpm	npm	LT debt /eqty %	sales/ empl in million $	shares in billion	revs in billion $
akzo nobel	36.97	31.38	1.96	18.65	8.61	44.1	6.73	47	0.307	0.572	10.4
arkema	109.2	21.38	2.2	6.38	6.68	19.7	4.65	45	0.451	0.076	10.7
basf	15.7	48.79	5.95	7.36	2.61	25.7	1.9	44	0.572	3.67	66.5
clariant	20.1	41.96	11.2	21.11	6.01	31.9	4.23	78	0.247	0.329	4.99
covestro	62.75	18.25	4.49	13.8	8.4	22.2	4.45	37	0.808	0.183	13.9
dsm	175	45.45	1.65	20	6.82	33.9	7.06	47	0.414	0.172	11.1
evonik	32.16	14.99	4.26	32	23.3	28.2	16.1	104	0.497	0.466	16.1
kemira	14.55	17.06	4.52	6.65	9.58	56.2	4.95	60	0.37	0.153	3.3
lanxess	78	16.65	1.45	11.6	7.7	25.9	3	172	0.439	0.087	8.3
linde	232	55.37	1.65	17.92	4.71	42.2	8.3	24	0.34	0.525	28.2
lyondellbasell	78.31	12.67	5.45	5.45	22.5	13	6.81	186	1.6	0.336	34.7
solvay	106.4	13.26	4.28	10.75	14.5	25.6	9.9	44	0.466	0.103	13.8
umicore	49.4	41.24	0.6	18.39	8.87	5.33	1.21	66	1.58	0.241	21.5
wacker	142.1	23.67	0.42	40	0	16	0	183	0.336	0.052	4.9
yara	42.15	17.25	3.42	7.37	7.79	30.6	5.54	45	6.22	0.267	12.9
average	79.6	28.0	3.6	15.8	9.2	28.0	5.7	79	0.976	0.482	17.419

 

In near-future blogs, I plan to present a similar table for Japanese chemical companies (first blog) and a similar table for United States chemical companies (second blog).  And hopefully by using the averages (bottom row) from each table, some conclusions can be reached on performance comparisons between European Union, Japanese, and United States chemical companies.