HNI vs. SCS, RAMP, BFH, FLYW, PAYO, LSPD, PAY, NABL, EVTC, and FA
Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include Steelcase (SCS), LiveRamp (RAMP), Bread Financial (BFH), Flywire (FLYW), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Paymentus (PAY), N-able (NABL), EVERTEC (EVTC), and First Advantage (FA). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
HNI's return on equity of 17.75% beat Steelcase's return on equity.
75.3% of HNI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Steelcase shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Steelcase 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.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Steelcase pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. HNI pays out 97.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Steelcase pays out 58.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steelcase is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
HNI has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steelcase has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HNI had 11 more articles in the media than Steelcase. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for HNI and 3 mentions for Steelcase. Steelcase's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat HNI's score of 0.52 indicating that Steelcase is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Steelcase received 72 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Steelcase an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
Steelcase has higher revenue and earnings than HNI. Steelcase is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HNI presently has a consensus price target of $54.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.08%. Steelcase has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 16.48%. Given HNI's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe HNI is more favorable than Steelcase.
Summary
Steelcase beats HNI on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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