HEES vs. B, AZZ, POWL, KMT, XRX, CENX, EPAC, PLUG, UFPT, and DNOW
Should you be buying H&E Equipment Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&E Equipment Services include Barnes Group (B), AZZ (AZZ), Powell Industries (POWL), Kennametal (KMT), Xerox (XRX), Century Aluminum (CENX), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Plug Power (PLUG), UFP Technologies (UFPT), and DNOW (DNOW). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) and Barnes Group (NYSE:B) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
H&E Equipment Services presently has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.90%. Barnes Group has a consensus price target of $40.67, indicating a potential upside of 12.34%. Given H&E Equipment Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe H&E Equipment Services is more favorable than Barnes Group.
In the previous week, H&E Equipment Services had 3 more articles in the media than Barnes Group. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for H&E Equipment Services and 24 mentions for Barnes Group. Barnes Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat H&E Equipment Services' score of 0.17 indicating that Barnes Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barnes Group received 117 more outperform votes than H&E Equipment Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.19% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote.
H&E Equipment Services pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. H&E Equipment Services pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barnes Group pays out 711.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. H&E Equipment Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Barnes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Barnes Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnes Group has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
H&E Equipment Services has a net margin of 11.17% compared to Barnes Group's net margin of 0.31%. H&E Equipment Services' return on equity of 35.38% beat Barnes Group's return on equity.
H&E Equipment Services has higher revenue and earnings than Barnes Group. H&E Equipment Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
H&E Equipment Services beats Barnes Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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