Preformed Line Products (PLPC) Competitors

Powell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL) and Preformed Line Products (NASDAQ:PLPC) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Is POWL or PLPC a better dividend stock?

Powell Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Preformed Line Products pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Powell Industries pays out 7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Preformed Line Products pays out 10.1% 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. Powell Industries has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Powell Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has better earnings and valuation, POWL or PLPC?

Powell Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Preformed Line Products. Powell Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Preformed Line Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Powell Industries	$1.01B	2.09	$149.85M	$14.23	12.33
Preformed Line Products	$601.35M	1.26	$37.09M	$7.89	19.46

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of POWL or PLPC?

89.8% of Powell Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.2% of Preformed Line Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Powell Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of Preformed Line Products shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is POWL or PLPC more profitable?

Powell Industries has a net margin of 16.00% compared to Preformed Line Products' net margin of 6.49%. Powell Industries' return on equity of 35.43% beat Preformed Line Products' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Powell Industries	16.00%	35.43%	18.87%
Preformed Line Products	6.49%	9.16%	6.70%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in POWL or PLPC?

Preformed Line Products received 6 more outperform votes than Powell Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.94% of users gave Preformed Line Products an outperform vote while only 60.98% of users gave Powell Industries an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Powell Industries	Outperform Votes 225 60.98%	Underperform Votes 144 39.02%
Preformed Line Products	Outperform Votes 231 67.94%	Underperform Votes 109 32.06%

Does the media favor POWL or PLPC?

In the previous week, Powell Industries and Powell Industries both had 7 articles in the media. Preformed Line Products' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Powell Industries' score of 0.73 indicating that Preformed Line Products is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Powell Industries	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Preformed Line Products	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts rate POWL or PLPC?

Powell Industries presently has a consensus target price of $312.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.86%. Given Powell Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Powell Industries is more favorable than Preformed Line Products.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Powell Industries	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50
Preformed Line Products	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, POWL or PLPC?

Powell Industries has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Preformed Line Products has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Powell Industries beats Preformed Line Products on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.