AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC. vs MOSAIC CO, two Chemicals stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Air Products, an industrial-gas supplier, earns a durable 16.91% net margin and 11.61% return on equity, and the market pays 29.38 times earnings and 3.41 times book for that steadiness, even with free cash currently negative at -4.06% from project spending. Mosaic mines phosphate and potash at the bottom of its price cycle: net margin of 0.36% leaves no earnings multiple, and the stock trades at 0.59 times book, below the value of its assets. Free cash is negative for both, -4.06% for Air Products by choice, -6.89% for Mosaic by cycle. Mosaic's 3.93% dividend tops Air Products' 2.57%. Steady oligopolist versus depressed cyclical.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | APD | MOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $299.48 | $21.51 |
| Market cap | $66.8B | $6.8B |
| Sector | Chemicals | Chemicals |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +24.4% | -0.7% |
| P/E | 31.7 | — |
| P/B | 3.68 | 0.57 |
| P/S | 5.36 | 0.55 |
| EV/EBITDA | 24.8 | 8.8 |
| Revenue growth | +3.8% | +12.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 7.9% |
| Operating margin | 23.7% | -12.4% |
| Net margin | 16.9% | 0.4% |
| Return on equity | 11.6% | 0.4% |
| Return on assets | 5.1% | 0.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 10.2% | 0.5% |
| FCF yield | -3.8% | -7.2% |
| Dividend yield | 2.4% | 4.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.02 | 0.36 |
| Current ratio | 1.43 | 1.25 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.72 | 7.30 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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