MLKN vs. LZB, SCS, HNI, AMWD, KNL, SLVM, PTVE, MATV, PACK, and RYAM
Should you be buying MillerKnoll stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MillerKnoll include La-Z-Boy (LZB), Steelcase (SCS), HNI (HNI), American Woodmark (AMWD), Knoll (KNL), Sylvamo (SLVM), Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE), Mativ (MATV), Ranpak (PACK), and Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM).
MillerKnoll (NASDAQ:MLKN) and La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
MillerKnoll currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.96%. La-Z-Boy has a consensus price target of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.23%. Given La-Z-Boy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe La-Z-Boy is more favorable than MillerKnoll.
MillerKnoll has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, La-Z-Boy has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.5% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of La-Z-Boy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of MillerKnoll shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of La-Z-Boy 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.
MillerKnoll pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. La-Z-Boy pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. MillerKnoll pays out 67.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. La-Z-Boy pays out 28.3% 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.
La-Z-Boy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MillerKnoll. La-Z-Boy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MillerKnoll, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
La-Z-Boy received 314 more outperform votes than MillerKnoll when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave MillerKnoll an outperform vote while only 61.71% of users gave La-Z-Boy an outperform vote.
La-Z-Boy has a net margin of 5.89% compared to MillerKnoll's net margin of 2.27%. La-Z-Boy's return on equity of 12.90% beat MillerKnoll's return on equity.
In the previous week, La-Z-Boy had 6 more articles in the media than MillerKnoll. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for La-Z-Boy and 2 mentions for MillerKnoll. MillerKnoll's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat La-Z-Boy's score of 0.39 indicating that MillerKnoll is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
La-Z-Boy beats MillerKnoll on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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