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).
Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM) and Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Howmet Aerospace pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Howmet Aerospace pays out 9.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% 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 a net margin of 17.22% compared to Howmet Aerospace's net margin of 12.53%. Mueller Industries' return on equity of 24.69% beat Howmet Aerospace's return on equity.
90.5% of Howmet Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Howmet Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Howmet Aerospace has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Howmet Aerospace presently has a consensus price target of $75.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.40%. Given Howmet Aerospace's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Howmet Aerospace is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
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. Howmet Aerospace's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Mueller Industries' score of 0.70 indicating that Howmet Aerospace is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Howmet Aerospace beats Mueller Industries on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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