SXI vs. TNC, MIDD, KMT, B, OI, EPAC, UFPT, POWL, AZZ, and LZ
Should you be buying Standex International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standex International include Tennant (TNC), Middleby (MIDD), Kennametal (KMT), Barnes Group (B), O-I Glass (OI), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Powell Industries (POWL), AZZ (AZZ), and LegalZoom.com (LZ). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Tennant (NYSE:TNC) and Standex International (NYSE:SXI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Standex International has a net margin of 10.11% compared to Standex International's net margin of 9.10%. Standex International's return on equity of 23.16% beat Tennant's return on equity.
Tennant received 55 more outperform votes than Standex International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.45% of users gave Standex International an outperform vote while only 62.17% of users gave Tennant an outperform vote.
93.3% of Tennant shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of Standex International shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Tennant shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Standex International 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.
Tennant has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standex International has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tennant presently has a consensus price target of $106.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.95%. Standex International has a consensus price target of $191.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.01%. Given Tennant's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Standex International is more favorable than Tennant.
Standex International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tennant. Tennant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standex International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tennant pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Standex International pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Tennant pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Standex International pays out 19.4% 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. Tennant has raised its dividend for 52 consecutive years and Standex International has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Tennant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Tennant had 1 more articles in the media than Standex International. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Tennant and 2 mentions for Standex International. Tennant's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Standex International's score of 0.78 indicating that Standex International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tennant beats Standex International on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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