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AIN vs. WTS, MIDD, GTLS, FLS, VMI, TKR, ESE, MWA, NPO, and KAI

Should you be buying Albany International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Albany International include Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Middleby (MIDD), Chart Industries (GTLS), Flowserve (FLS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Enpro (NPO), and Kadant (KAI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.

Albany International vs.

Albany International (NYSE:AIN) and Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.

Albany International presently has a consensus target price of $81.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.08%. Watts Water Technologies has a consensus target price of $222.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.00%. Given Albany International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Albany International is more favorable than Watts Water Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Albany International
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Watts Water Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

Watts Water Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Albany International. Albany International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watts Water Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Albany International$1.21B1.65$111.12M$2.4826.54
Watts Water Technologies$2.24B3.55$291.20M$8.7327.34

Watts Water Technologies received 48 more outperform votes than Albany International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.43% of users gave Albany International an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave Watts Water Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Albany InternationalOutperform Votes
252
60.43%
Underperform Votes
165
39.57%
Watts Water TechnologiesOutperform Votes
300
56.18%
Underperform Votes
234
43.82%

Albany International pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Watts Water Technologies pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Albany International pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Watts Water Technologies pays out 23.8% 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. Albany International has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Watts Water Technologies has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.

Albany International has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Watts Water Technologies has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

97.4% of Albany International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Watts Water Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Albany International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Watts Water Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Watts Water Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Albany International. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Watts Water Technologies and 16 mentions for Albany International. Watts Water Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Albany International's score of 0.86 indicating that Watts Water Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Albany International
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Watts Water Technologies
10 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Watts Water Technologies has a net margin of 12.93% compared to Albany International's net margin of 7.92%. Watts Water Technologies' return on equity of 18.08% beat Albany International's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Albany International7.92% 12.20% 6.69%
Watts Water Technologies 12.93%18.08%12.49%

Summary

Watts Water Technologies beats Albany International on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AIN vs. The Competition

MetricAlbany InternationalBroadwoven fabric mills, manmade IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.99B$1.99B$7.63B$19.30B
Dividend Yield1.56%1.56%4.58%3.83%
P/E Ratio20.5720.5723.1434.53
Price / Sales1.651.6590.5734.84
Price / Cash12.2312.2326.9417.51
Price / Book2.122.123.974.69
Net Income$111.12M$111.12M$807.24M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.83%-4.83%0.09%-2.43%
1 Month Performance4.79%4.79%10.54%6.27%
1 Year Performance-25.56%-25.56%26.13%5.78%

Albany International Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AIN
Albany International
3.8313 of 5 stars
$65.81
+0.0%
$81.00
+23.1%
-27.0%$1.99B$1.21B20.574,100Dividend Announcement
WTS
Watts Water Technologies
4.0318 of 5 stars
$245.43
+3.8%
$222.00
-9.5%
+11.7%$8.18B$2.24B28.244,600
MIDD
Middleby
4.4674 of 5 stars
$146.90
+5.3%
$168.14
+14.5%
+14.0%$7.88B$3.85B20.2610,600Gap Up
High Trading Volume
GTLS
Chart Industries
4.2854 of 5 stars
$170.82
+7.3%
$201.64
+18.0%
+1.6%$7.81B$4.21B49.515,180Positive News
FLS
Flowserve
4.7284 of 5 stars
$50.85
+6.5%
$64.11
+26.1%
-1.2%$6.65B$4.61B23.7616,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
VMI
Valmont Industries
4.3107 of 5 stars
$322.21
+4.2%
$362.50
+12.5%
+20.7%$6.47B$4.07B18.7611,000Gap Up
TKR
Timken
4.9096 of 5 stars
$72.83
+6.1%
$80.20
+10.1%
-23.4%$5.10B$4.52B14.5919,000
ESE
ESCO Technologies
1.2769 of 5 stars
$180.01
+2.5%
$187.50
+4.2%
+61.0%$4.65B$1.07B42.262,920Positive News
High Trading Volume
MWA
Mueller Water Products
3.9206 of 5 stars
$25.38
+3.6%
$26.25
+3.4%
+28.6%$3.98B$1.37B29.513,600Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
NPO
Enpro
4.2129 of 5 stars
$182.73
+4.8%
$202.50
+10.8%
+19.6%$3.85B$1.06B52.814,400Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
KAI
Kadant
1.5841 of 5 stars
$321.76
+6.1%
$327.50
+1.8%
+12.0%$3.79B$1.04B33.943,100Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Buyback Announcement

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