KAI vs. JBT, ATS, BDC, ALRM, HI, UNF, GEF, REZI, BRC, and CSTM
Should you be buying Kadant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kadant include John Bean Technologies (JBT), ATS (ATS), Belden (BDC), Alarm.com (ALRM), Hillenbrand (HI), UniFirst (UNF), Greif (GEF), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Brady (BRC), and Constellium (CSTM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
John Bean Technologies (NYSE:JBT) and Kadant (NYSE:KAI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
98.9% of John Bean Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Kadant shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of John Bean Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kadant shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
John Bean Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. John Bean Technologies pays out 2.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kadant pays out 13.3% 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. Kadant has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Kadant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Kadant had 6 more articles in the media than John Bean Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Kadant and 27 mentions for John Bean Technologies. Kadant's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat John Bean Technologies' score of 0.24 indicating that John Bean Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
John Bean Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Kadant. John Bean Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kadant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
John Bean Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $121.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.76%. Kadant has a consensus price target of $360.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.13%. Given Kadant's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe John Bean Technologies is more favorable than Kadant.
John Bean Technologies has a net margin of 36.12% compared to John Bean Technologies' net margin of 11.53%. John Bean Technologies' return on equity of 15.88% beat Kadant's return on equity.
John Bean Technologies has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kadant has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
John Bean Technologies received 26 more outperform votes than Kadant when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave John Bean Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.84% of users gave Kadant an outperform vote.
Summary
John Bean Technologies beats Kadant on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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