HEES vs. NSSC, PLUG, XRX, CENX, POWL, B, HLIO, DNOW, KALU, and UFPT
Should you be buying H&E Equipment Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&E Equipment Services include Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Plug Power (PLUG), Xerox (XRX), Century Aluminum (CENX), Powell Industries (POWL), Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), DNOW (DNOW), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), and UFP Technologies (UFPT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Napco Security Technologies (NASDAQ:NSSC) and H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
85.1% of Napco Security Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Napco Security Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
H&E Equipment Services has higher revenue and earnings than Napco Security Technologies. H&E Equipment Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Napco Security Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Napco Security Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $41.83, indicating a potential downside of 6.27%. H&E Equipment Services has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.78%. Given Napco Security Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe H&E Equipment Services is more favorable than Napco Security Technologies.
Napco Security Technologies has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Napco Security Technologies had 16 more articles in the media than H&E Equipment Services. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Napco Security Technologies and 10 mentions for H&E Equipment Services. H&E Equipment Services' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Napco Security Technologies' score of -0.49 indicating that Napco Security Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Napco Security Technologies has a net margin of 25.08% compared to Napco Security Technologies' net margin of 11.17%. Napco Security Technologies' return on equity of 34.33% beat H&E Equipment Services' return on equity.
Napco Security Technologies received 6 more outperform votes than H&E Equipment Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.42% of users gave Napco Security Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote.
Napco Security Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 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 2.2%. Napco Security Technologies pays out 33.6% 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. Napco Security Technologies has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. H&E Equipment Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Napco Security Technologies and H&E Equipment Services tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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