MIDD vs. TNC, SXI, MSA, SITE, GPK, AIT, RBC, DCI, AGCO, and ATKR
Should you be buying Middleby stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Middleby include Tennant (TNC), Standex International (SXI), MSA Safety (MSA), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), RBC Bearings (RBC), Donaldson (DCI), AGCO (AGCO), and Atkore (ATKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Tennant (NYSE:TNC) and Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Tennant presently has a consensus target price of $106.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.61%. Middleby has a consensus target price of $159.38, indicating a potential upside of 15.90%. Given Tennant's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Middleby is more favorable than Tennant.
Middleby received 46 more outperform votes than Tennant when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.02% of users gave Tennant an outperform vote while only 59.17% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than Tennant. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tennant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.3% of Tennant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Middleby shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of Tennant shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Middleby shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Tennant had 18 more articles in the media than Middleby. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Tennant and 3 mentions for Middleby. Middleby's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Tennant's score of -0.25 indicating that Tennant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Middleby has a net margin of 9.93% compared to Middleby's net margin of 8.81%. Middleby's return on equity of 23.07% beat Tennant's return on equity.
Tennant has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Middleby has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Middleby beats Tennant on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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