MLKN vs. HNI, LZB, SCS, AMWD, KNL, DLB, TAL, WSC, MHK, and LBRDA
Should you be buying MillerKnoll stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MillerKnoll include HNI (HNI), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Steelcase (SCS), American Woodmark (AMWD), Knoll (KNL), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), TAL Education Group (TAL), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Mohawk Industries (MHK), and Liberty Broadband (LBRDA).
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and MillerKnoll (NASDAQ:MLKN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
HNI has a net margin of 2.57% compared to HNI's net margin of 1.96%. MillerKnoll's return on equity of 17.75% beat HNI's return on equity.
HNI has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MillerKnoll has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of MillerKnoll shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of MillerKnoll shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, HNI had 8 more articles in the media than MillerKnoll. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for HNI and 6 mentions for MillerKnoll. HNI's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat MillerKnoll's score of 0.52 indicating that MillerKnoll is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HNI currently has a consensus target price of $54.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.08%. MillerKnoll has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.26%. Given MillerKnoll's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than MillerKnoll.
HNI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MillerKnoll. MillerKnoll is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HNI received 231 more outperform votes than MillerKnoll when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.33% of users gave MillerKnoll an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. MillerKnoll pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. 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. MillerKnoll pays out 77.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HNI has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. HNI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
HNI beats MillerKnoll on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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