HI vs. BRC, ALRM, KAI, BDC, CSTM, YOU, GEF, ATS, ENS, and UNF
Should you be buying Hillenbrand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hillenbrand include Brady (BRC), Alarm.com (ALRM), Kadant (KAI), Belden (BDC), Constellium (CSTM), Clear Secure (YOU), Greif (GEF), ATS (ATS), EnerSys (ENS), and UniFirst (UNF). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Brady (NYSE:BRC) and Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Hillenbrand has higher revenue and earnings than Brady. Hillenbrand is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brady, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brady received 91 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Brady an outperform vote while only 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote.
Hillenbrand has a net margin of 18.39% compared to Hillenbrand's net margin of 14.08%. Hillenbrand's return on equity of 19.24% beat Brady's return on equity.
Brady presently has a consensus target price of $65.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.23%. Hillenbrand has a consensus target price of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.51%. Given Brady's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than Brady.
Brady has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Brady had 39 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Brady and 10 mentions for Hillenbrand. Brady's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Hillenbrand's score of 0.07 indicating that Hillenbrand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
76.3% of Brady shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are held by institutional investors. 15.6% of Brady shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Hillenbrand shares are held 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.
Brady pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Brady pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hillenbrand pays out 11.5% 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. Brady has raised its dividend for 38 consecutive years and Hillenbrand has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Hillenbrand is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Hillenbrand beats Brady on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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