KFY vs. HI, HTZ, CWST, ROLL, CR, BWXT, HRT, RCRTW, BLDP, and YELL
Should you be buying Korn Ferry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korn Ferry include Hillenbrand (HI), Hertz Global (HTZ), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Crane (CR), BWX Technologies (BWXT), HireRight (HRT), Recruiter.com Group (RCRTW), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), and Yellow (YELL).
Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) and Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and earnings.
Korn Ferry presently has a consensus target price of $69.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.52%. Hillenbrand has a consensus target price of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.73%. Given Hillenbrand's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than Korn Ferry.
Korn Ferry pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Korn Ferry pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hillenbrand pays out 11.5% 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. Hillenbrand is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hillenbrand has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Korn Ferry. Hillenbrand is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Korn Ferry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Korn Ferry has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hillenbrand has a net margin of 18.39% compared to Korn Ferry's net margin of 5.34%. Hillenbrand's return on equity of 14.65% beat Korn Ferry's return on equity.
Korn Ferry received 61 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote while only 54.96% of users gave Korn Ferry an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Korn Ferry had 6 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Korn Ferry and 17 mentions for Hillenbrand. Korn Ferry's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Hillenbrand's score of 0.04 indicating that Korn Ferry is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.8% of Korn Ferry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Korn Ferry shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Hillenbrand shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hillenbrand beats Korn Ferry on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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