KMT vs. MIDD, MLI, WTS, GTLS, FLS, TKR, VMI, KAI, NPO, and JBT
Should you be buying Kennametal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kennametal include Middleby (MIDD), Mueller Industries (MLI), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Chart Industries (GTLS), Flowserve (FLS), Timken (TKR), Valmont Industries (VMI), Kadant (KAI), Enpro (NPO), and John Bean Technologies (JBT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) and Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
98.6% of Middleby shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Middleby shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Kennametal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than Kennametal. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kennametal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kennametal received 63 more outperform votes than Middleby when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.05% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote while only 55.84% of users gave Kennametal an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Middleby had 9 more articles in the media than Kennametal. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Middleby and 3 mentions for Kennametal. Middleby's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Kennametal's score of 0.28 indicating that Kennametal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Middleby has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Middleby's net margin of 5.29%. Kennametal's return on equity of 15.88% beat Middleby's return on equity.
Middleby presently has a consensus price target of $153.43, suggesting a potential upside of 21.88%. Kennametal has a consensus price target of $24.17, suggesting a potential downside of 1.52%. Given Kennametal's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Middleby is more favorable than Kennametal.
Middleby has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kennametal has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Middleby beats Kennametal on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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