AZZ vs. HEES, B, KMT, POWL, EPAC, XRX, CENX, PLUG, UFPT, and DNOW
Should you be buying AZZ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AZZ include H&E Equipment Services (HEES), Barnes Group (B), Kennametal (KMT), Powell Industries (POWL), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Xerox (XRX), Century Aluminum (CENX), Plug Power (PLUG), UFP Technologies (UFPT), and DNOW (DNOW). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) and H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, H&E Equipment Services had 16 more articles in the media than AZZ. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for H&E Equipment Services and 5 mentions for AZZ. AZZ's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat H&E Equipment Services' score of -0.19 indicating that AZZ is being referred to more favorably in the media.
H&E Equipment Services has a net margin of 11.17% compared to AZZ's net margin of 6.61%. H&E Equipment Services' return on equity of 34.33% beat AZZ's return on equity.
H&E Equipment Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AZZ. H&E Equipment Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AZZ, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AZZ presently has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.90%. H&E Equipment Services has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.06%. Given H&E Equipment Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe H&E Equipment Services is more favorable than AZZ.
AZZ received 30 more outperform votes than H&E Equipment Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.93% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote while only 55.08% of users gave AZZ an outperform vote.
90.9% of AZZ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of AZZ shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AZZ has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AZZ pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. H&E Equipment Services pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. AZZ pays out 19.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. H&E Equipment Services pays out 23.6% 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.
Summary
H&E Equipment Services beats AZZ on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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