B vs. WTS, MIDD, GTLS, MLI, FLS, TKR, VMI, KAI, NPO, and JBT
Should you be buying Barnes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnes Group include Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Middleby (MIDD), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), Flowserve (FLS), Timken (TKR), Valmont Industries (VMI), Kadant (KAI), Enpro (NPO), and John Bean Technologies (JBT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) and Barnes Group (NYSE:B) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
95.0% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Barnes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Watts Water Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Barnes Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Watts Water Technologies had 7 more articles in the media than Barnes Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Watts Water Technologies and 5 mentions for Barnes Group. Barnes Group's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Watts Water Technologies' score of 0.49 indicating that Watts Water Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barnes Group received 83 more outperform votes than Watts Water Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.19% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave Watts Water Technologies an outperform vote.
Watts Water Technologies has a net margin of 12.53% compared to Watts Water Technologies' net margin of 0.31%. Barnes Group's return on equity of 19.61% beat Watts Water Technologies' return on equity.
Watts Water Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Barnes Group. Watts Water Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Watts Water Technologies has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnes Group has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Watts Water Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Watts Water Technologies pays out 21.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barnes Group pays out 711.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Watts Water Technologies has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Watts Water Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $199.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.19%. Barnes Group has a consensus price target of $40.67, indicating a potential upside of 5.66%. Given Watts Water Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Barnes Group is more favorable than Watts Water Technologies.
Summary
Watts Water Technologies beats Barnes Group on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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