SITE vs. AIT, MSA, RBC, MIDD, BERY, ATKR, ESAB, MLI, AA, and TKR
Should you be buying SiteOne Landscape Supply stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SiteOne Landscape Supply include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), MSA Safety (MSA), RBC Bearings (RBC), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), Mueller Industries (MLI), Alcoa (AA), and Timken (TKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than SiteOne Landscape Supply. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SiteOne Landscape Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SiteOne Landscape Supply had 28 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply and 8 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's score of 0.45 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SiteOne Landscape Supply received 29 more outperform votes than Applied Industrial Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.71% of users gave Applied Industrial Technologies an outperform vote while only 55.11% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.36% compared to SiteOne Landscape Supply's net margin of 3.63%. Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity of 23.69% beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity.
SiteOne Landscape Supply presently has a consensus target price of $167.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.89%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus target price of $201.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.08%. Given SiteOne Landscape Supply's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SiteOne Landscape Supply is more favorable than Applied Industrial Technologies.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats SiteOne Landscape Supply on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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