MLR vs. TRN, ALG, GBX, LNN, WNC, ASTE, TWI, PLOW, MTW, and TWIN
Should you be buying Miller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Miller Industries include Trinity Industries (TRN), Alamo Group (ALG), Greenbrier Companies (GBX), Lindsay (LNN), Wabash National (WNC), Astec Industries (ASTE), Titan International (TWI), Douglas Dynamics (PLOW), Manitowoc (MTW), and Twin Disc (TWIN). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.
Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) and Trinity Industries (NYSE:TRN) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Trinity Industries has a consensus target price of $31.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.43%. Given Trinity Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trinity Industries is more favorable than Miller Industries.
Miller Industries has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trinity Industries has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Miller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Trinity Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Miller Industries pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trinity Industries pays out 75.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Miller Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Trinity Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Miller Industries and 1 mentions for Trinity Industries. Trinity Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Miller Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Trinity Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Trinity Industries received 234 more outperform votes than Miller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.36% of users gave Miller Industries an outperform vote while only 63.42% of users gave Trinity Industries an outperform vote.
79.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Trinity Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Trinity Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Trinity Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Miller Industries. Miller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Miller Industries has a net margin of 5.41% compared to Trinity Industries' net margin of 3.98%. Miller Industries' return on equity of 19.46% beat Trinity Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Trinity Industries beats Miller Industries on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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