CR vs. HI, ROLL, CWST, KFY, BLDP, PYRGF, LASE, JKSM, NMHIW, and SHPWW
Should you be buying Crane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane include Hillenbrand (HI), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Korn Ferry (KFY), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), PyroGenesis Canada (PYRGF), Laser Photonics (LASE), Jacksam (JKSM), Nature's Miracle (NMHIW), and Shapeways (SHPWW). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) and Crane (NYSE:CR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Hillenbrand presently has a consensus price target of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.39%. Crane has a consensus price target of $137.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.35%. Given Crane's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than Crane.
Hillenbrand has a net margin of 18.39% compared to Hillenbrand's net margin of 13.10%. Hillenbrand's return on equity of 24.45% beat Crane's return on equity.
Crane received 149 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.41% of users gave Crane an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote.
Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Crane pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Hillenbrand pays out 11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crane pays out 22.0% 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. Hillenbrand has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Crane has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Hillenbrand is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Crane shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Hillenbrand shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Crane shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crane has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hillenbrand has higher revenue and earnings than Crane. Hillenbrand is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Crane had 48 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Crane and 10 mentions for Hillenbrand. Crane's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Hillenbrand's score of 0.33 indicating that Hillenbrand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hillenbrand beats Crane on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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