RBC vs. TKR, AIT, ATKR, ESAB, BERY, AA, MLI, SITE, GTLS, and MSA
Should you be buying RBC Bearings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RBC Bearings include Timken (TKR), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), Berry Global Group (BERY), Alcoa (AA), Mueller Industries (MLI), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Chart Industries (GTLS), and MSA Safety (MSA). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Timken (NYSE:TKR) and RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Timken has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. Timken is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Timken has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 12.81% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 7.99%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 17.98% beat Timken's return on equity.
Timken currently has a consensus price target of $87.09, indicating a potential downside of 3.15%. RBC Bearings has a consensus price target of $275.86, indicating a potential upside of 7.82%. Given Timken's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than Timken.
In the previous week, Timken had 29 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Timken and 3 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Timken's score of 0.50 indicating that Timken is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.1% of Timken shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Timken shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Timken received 163 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.74% of users gave Timken an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
Summary
Timken beats RBC Bearings on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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