MLI vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, PNR, NDSN, SWK, WWD, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Mueller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Industries include Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Woodward (WWD), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) and Dover (NYSE:DOV) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Dover received 540 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.66% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.
Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dover pays out 19.6% 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. Mueller Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Mueller Industries' net margin of 17.22%. Dover's return on equity of 25.04% beat Mueller Industries' return on equity.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dover, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dover has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dover has a consensus price target of $185.75, indicating a potential upside of 4.81%. Given Dover's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dover is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Dover shares are held by company 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, Dover had 5 more articles in the media than Mueller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Dover and 9 mentions for Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Dover's score of 1.25 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Dover beats Mueller Industries on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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