BRC vs. HI, CSTM, JBT, GEF, YOU, REZI, UNF, ESE, MWA, and AIN
Should you be buying Brady stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brady include Hillenbrand (HI), Constellium (CSTM), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Greif (GEF), Clear Secure (YOU), Resideo Technologies (REZI), UniFirst (UNF), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Mueller Water Products (MWA), and Albany International (AIN). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Brady (NYSE:BRC) and Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Brady has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brady pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Brady pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hillenbrand pays out 73.6% 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.
Hillenbrand has higher revenue and earnings than Brady. Brady is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hillenbrand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brady had 84 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 87 mentions for Brady and 3 mentions for Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Brady's score of 0.12 indicating that Hillenbrand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brady received 91 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Brady an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote.
76.3% of Brady shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of Brady shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Hillenbrand 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.
Brady has a net margin of 14.08% compared to Hillenbrand's net margin of 2.79%. Brady's return on equity of 19.24% beat Hillenbrand's return on equity.
Brady currently has a consensus target price of $65.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.12%. Hillenbrand has a consensus target price of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.51%. Given Hillenbrand's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than Brady.
Summary
Brady beats Hillenbrand on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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