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.
Valmont Industries (NYSE:VMI) and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
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.
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.
Valmont Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Valmont Industries pays out 31.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 15.1% 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. Valmont Industries has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Valmont Industries has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Valmont Industries' net margin of 3.61%. Valmont Industries' return on equity of 42.94% beat Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity.
Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valmont Industries presently has a consensus price target of $262.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.22%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a consensus price target of $88.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.92%. Given Valmont Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Valmont Industries.
87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Valmont Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Valmont Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Valmont Industries and 3 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Valmont Industries' score of 0.43 indicating that Valmont Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Valmont Industries beats Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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