HY vs. VMI, KAI, NPO, JBT, MWA, ESE, AIN, KMT, B, and SXI
Should you be buying Hyster-Yale Materials Handling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling include Valmont Industries (VMI), Kadant (KAI), Enpro (NPO), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Mueller Water Products (MWA), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Albany International (AIN), Kennametal (KMT), Barnes Group (B), and Standex International (SXI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) and Valmont Industries (NYSE:VMI) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
Valmont Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valmont Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling presently has a consensus target price of $88.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.92%. Valmont Industries has a consensus target price of $262.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.22%. Given Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Valmont Industries.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Valmont Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Valmont Industries pays out 31.6% 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. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valmont Industries received 94 more outperform votes than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.64% of users gave Valmont Industries an outperform vote while only 56.55% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote.
46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Valmont Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Valmont Industries and 2 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Valmont Industries' score of 0.53 indicating that Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valmont Industries has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's net margin of 3.61%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity of 42.94% beat Valmont Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Valmont Industries beats Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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