TS vs. HUBB, BALL, AXON, AVY, IEX, ZBRA, PKG, DOV, NDSN, and AMCR
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Dover (DOV), Nordson (NDSN), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Hubbell had 15 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Hubbell and 3 mentions for Tenaris. Hubbell's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Tenaris' score of 0.72 indicating that Tenaris is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Hubbell pays out 36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tenaris pays out 26.7% 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. Hubbell has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Tenaris has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tenaris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Hubbell. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.2% of Hubbell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of Tenaris shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Hubbell shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tenaris received 90 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Hubbell presently has a consensus target price of $386.57, indicating a potential downside of 3.60%. Tenaris has a consensus target price of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 22.86%. Given Hubbell's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Hubbell.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 13.23%. Tenaris' return on equity of 29.55% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
Summary
Tenaris beats Hubbell on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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