TS vs. AVY, HUBB, AXON, BALL, ZBRA, IEX, PKG, DOV, CNHI, and GGG
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Avery Dennison (AVY), Hubbell (HUBB), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Ball (BALL), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), IDEX (IEX), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Dover (DOV), CNH Industrial (CNHI), and Graco (GGG). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Avery Dennison currently has a consensus price target of $228.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.60%. Tenaris has a consensus price target of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 21.28%. Given Avery Dennison's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Avery Dennison.
In the previous week, Avery Dennison had 21 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Avery Dennison and 1 mentions for Tenaris. Avery Dennison's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Tenaris' score of 0.91 indicating that Tenaris is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Avery Dennison pays out 47.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tenaris pays out 26.7% 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. Avery Dennison has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Tenaris has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tenaris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Avery Dennison received 2 more outperform votes than Tenaris when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote while only 57.30% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.2% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.5% of Tenaris shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Avery Dennison. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 6.56%. Tenaris' return on equity of 32.59% beat Avery Dennison's return on equity.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats Tenaris on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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