HWM vs. MLI, WIRE, KALU, NX, TG, SHW, CRH, DHI, URI, and LEN
Should you be buying Howmet Aerospace stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Howmet Aerospace include Mueller Industries (MLI), Encore Wire (WIRE), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Quanex Building Products (NX), Tredegar (TG), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), and Lennar (LEN).
Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) and Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Howmet Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Howmet Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mueller Industries received 102 more outperform votes than Howmet Aerospace when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.83% of users gave Howmet Aerospace an outperform vote while only 61.66% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 17.22% compared to Mueller Industries' net margin of 12.53%. Howmet Aerospace's return on equity of 24.69% beat Mueller Industries' return on equity.
Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howmet Aerospace has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Howmet Aerospace had 5 more articles in the media than Mueller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Howmet Aerospace and 7 mentions for Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Howmet Aerospace's score of 0.70 indicating that Howmet Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Howmet Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Howmet Aerospace pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Mueller Industries has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Howmet Aerospace has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Mueller Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Howmet Aerospace has a consensus price target of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.40%. Given Mueller Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Howmet Aerospace is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
Howmet Aerospace has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howmet Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Howmet Aerospace beats Mueller Industries on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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