HAYW vs. MIDD, SXI, TNC, JKHY, NICE, MNDY, SNX, TOST, ONTO, and JNPR
Should you be buying Hayward stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hayward include Middleby (MIDD), Standex International (SXI), Tennant (TNC), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), TD SYNNEX (SNX), Toast (TOST), Onto Innovation (ONTO), and Juniper Networks (JNPR).
Hayward (NYSE:HAYW) and Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Middleby has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Hayward's net margin of 8.25%. Middleby's return on equity of 15.88% beat Hayward's return on equity.
Middleby received 334 more outperform votes than Hayward when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.05% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Hayward an outperform vote.
Hayward presently has a consensus price target of $14.70, suggesting a potential upside of 0.75%. Middleby has a consensus price target of $153.43, suggesting a potential upside of 23.01%. Given Middleby's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Middleby is more favorable than Hayward.
In the previous week, Hayward had 6 more articles in the media than Middleby. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Hayward and 11 mentions for Middleby. Middleby's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Hayward's score of 0.15 indicating that Middleby is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than Hayward. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hayward, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.6% of Middleby shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Hayward shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Middleby shares are held 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.
Hayward has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Middleby has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Middleby beats Hayward on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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