TILE vs. HNI, SCS, PBI, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, DXYN, and MHK
Should you be buying Interface stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interface include HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), The Dixie Group (DXYN), and Mohawk Industries (MHK).
Interface (NASDAQ:TILE) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Interface has a net margin of 4.73% compared to HNI's net margin of 2.57%. HNI's return on equity of 17.75% beat Interface's return on equity.
98.3% of Interface shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Interface shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Interface received 63 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.24% of users gave Interface an outperform vote while only 56.97% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Interface pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HNI pays out 97.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
HNI has higher revenue and earnings than Interface. Interface is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Interface has a beta of 2, meaning that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HNI had 5 more articles in the media than Interface. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for HNI and 15 mentions for Interface. Interface's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat HNI's score of 0.55 indicating that Interface is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Interface presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.45%. HNI has a consensus price target of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given HNI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HNI is more favorable than Interface.
Summary
HNI beats Interface on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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