MIDD vs. AQUA, WBT, SXI, TNC, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, and PNR
Should you be buying Middleby stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Middleby include Evoqua Water Technologies (AQUA), Welbilt (WBT), Standex International (SXI), Tennant (TNC), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and Pentair (PNR).
Evoqua Water Technologies (NYSE:AQUA) and Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Evoqua Water Technologies has a beta of 1.79, suggesting that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Middleby has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Middleby has a consensus price target of $153.43, indicating a potential upside of 21.88%. Given Evoqua Water Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Middleby is more favorable than Evoqua Water Technologies.
Middleby received 176 more outperform votes than Evoqua Water Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.25% of users gave Evoqua Water Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than Evoqua Water Technologies. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evoqua Water Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Middleby had 12 more articles in the media than Evoqua Water Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Middleby and 0 mentions for Evoqua Water Technologies. Middleby's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Evoqua Water Technologies' score of 0.28 indicating that Evoqua Water Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Middleby has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Middleby's net margin of 4.24%. Middleby's return on equity of 16.97% beat Evoqua Water Technologies' return on equity.
93.5% of Evoqua Water Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Middleby shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Evoqua Water Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Middleby shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Middleby beats Evoqua Water Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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