HRB vs. HI, MATW, CSV, WW, RGS, SCI, UNF, YELP, EWCZ, and EM
Should you be buying H&R Block stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&R Block include Hillenbrand (HI), Matthews International (MATW), Carriage Services (CSV), WW International (WW), Regis (RGS), Service Co. International (SCI), UniFirst (UNF), Yelp (YELP), European Wax Center (EWCZ), and Smart Share Global (EM).
Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) and H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
H&R Block received 231 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave H&R Block an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote.
89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of H&R Block shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Hillenbrand shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of H&R Block shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
H&R Block has a net margin of 17.87% compared to H&R Block's net margin of 2.79%. H&R Block's return on equity of 14.75% beat Hillenbrand's return on equity.
Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. H&R Block pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Hillenbrand pays out 73.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. H&R Block pays out 29.3% 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. Hillenbrand has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and H&R Block has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. H&R Block is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H&R Block has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, H&R Block had 8 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for H&R Block and 3 mentions for Hillenbrand. H&R Block's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Hillenbrand's score of 0.36 indicating that Hillenbrand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hillenbrand has higher earnings, but lower revenue than H&R Block. H&R Block is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hillenbrand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hillenbrand presently has a consensus target price of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.21%. H&R Block has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.29%. Given H&R Block's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than H&R Block.
Summary
H&R Block beats Hillenbrand on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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