MWA vs. B, HLIO, GEF, JBT, BRC, CSTM, UNF, HI, AIN, and YOU
Should you be buying Mueller Water Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Water Products include Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Greif (GEF), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Brady (BRC), Constellium (CSTM), UniFirst (UNF), Hillenbrand (HI), Albany International (AIN), and Clear Secure (YOU). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Barnes Group (NYSE:B) and Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Barnes Group has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. 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. Mueller Water Products pays out 40.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Water Products has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 17 more articles in the media than Barnes Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 3 mentions for Barnes Group. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Barnes Group's score of 0.43 indicating that Barnes Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.8% of Barnes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Barnes Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Barnes Group currently has a consensus target price of $40.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.14%. Mueller Water Products has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.33%. Given Barnes Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mueller Water Products is more favorable than Barnes Group.
Mueller Water Products received 53 more outperform votes than Barnes Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.01% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 59.19% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote.
Mueller Water Products has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Barnes Group. Mueller Water Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 8.10% compared to Mueller Water Products' net margin of 0.31%. Barnes Group's return on equity of 16.97% beat Mueller Water Products' return on equity.
Summary
Mueller Water Products beats Barnes Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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