HLIO vs. B, MWA, POWL, HOLI, GIC, KALU, NSSC, CENX, DNOW, and UFPT
Should you be buying Helios Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helios Technologies include Barnes Group (B), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Powell Industries (POWL), Hollysys Automation Technologies (HOLI), Global Industrial (GIC), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Century Aluminum (CENX), DNOW (DNOW), and UFP Technologies (UFPT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Helios Technologies (NASDAQ:HLIO) and Barnes Group (NYSE:B) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Helios Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $67.67, suggesting a potential upside of 48.16%. Barnes Group has a consensus target price of $40.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.06%. Given Helios Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Helios Technologies is more favorable than Barnes Group.
Helios Technologies has a net margin of 4.49% compared to Barnes Group's net margin of 1.10%. Helios Technologies' return on equity of 9.19% beat Barnes Group's return on equity.
Helios Technologies has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnes Group has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barnes Group had 10 more articles in the media than Helios Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Barnes Group and 1 mentions for Helios Technologies. Barnes Group's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Helios Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Barnes Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Helios Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Helios Technologies pays out 31.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barnes Group pays out 206.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Barnes Group received 336 more outperform votes than Helios Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.19% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote while only 43.56% of users gave Helios Technologies an outperform vote.
94.7% of Helios Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Barnes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Helios Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Barnes Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Helios Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Barnes Group. Helios Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barnes Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Helios Technologies beats Barnes Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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