POWL vs. SNDR, AYI, FELE, WIRE, ENS, BDC, BRC, VICR, THR, and PLPC
Should you be buying Powell Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Powell Industries include Schneider National (SNDR), Acuity Brands (AYI), Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), EnerSys (ENS), Belden (BDC), Brady (BRC), Vicor (VICR), Thermon Group (THR), and Preformed Line Products (PLPC).
Schneider National (NYSE:SNDR) and Powell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Schneider National pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Powell Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Schneider National pays out 43.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Powell Industries pays out 12.6% 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. Schneider National has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Powell Industries has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Schneider National is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Schneider National has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Powell Industries has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
28.5% of Schneider National shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Powell Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 32.7% of Schneider National shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Powell Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Powell Industries had 6 more articles in the media than Schneider National. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Powell Industries and 3 mentions for Schneider National. Schneider National's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Powell Industries' score of 0.64 indicating that Powell Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schneider National received 209 more outperform votes than Powell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Schneider National an outperform vote while only 61.21% of users gave Powell Industries an outperform vote.
Schneider National has higher revenue and earnings than Powell Industries. Powell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schneider National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Schneider National presently has a consensus target price of $28.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.56%. Given Powell Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Schneider National is more favorable than Powell Industries.
Powell Industries has a net margin of 12.05% compared to Powell Industries' net margin of 2.95%. Schneider National's return on equity of 27.93% beat Powell Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Schneider National beats Powell Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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