HUBB vs. SWK, NDSN, PKG, GGG, AVY, RS, ZBRA, AOS, AXON, and LECO
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Nordson (NDSN), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graco (GGG), Avery Dennison (AVY), Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), A. O. Smith (AOS), Axon Enterprise (AXON), and Lincoln Electric (LECO). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell vs.
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) and Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Stanley Black & Decker has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hubbell has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stanley Black & Decker currently has a consensus price target of $98.75, suggesting a potential upside of 27.11%. Hubbell has a consensus price target of $230.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Given Stanley Black & Decker's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Stanley Black & Decker is more favorable than Hubbell.
Hubbell has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stanley Black & Decker. Stanley Black & Decker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.0% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Hubbell shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Stanley Black & Decker shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Hubbell shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Stanley Black & Decker received 245 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.25% of users gave Stanley Black & Decker an outperform vote while only 58.30% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Stanley Black & Decker pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Stanley Black & Decker pays out 47.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hubbell pays out 43.0% 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. Stanley Black & Decker has increased its dividend for 55 consecutive years and Hubbell has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Stanley Black & Decker is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Stanley Black & Decker had 9 more articles in the media than Hubbell. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Stanley Black & Decker and 8 mentions for Hubbell. Stanley Black & Decker's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Hubbell's score of 0.62 indicating that Stanley Black & Decker is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hubbell has a net margin of 11.40% compared to Stanley Black & Decker's net margin of 6.24%. Hubbell's return on equity of 25.03% beat Stanley Black & Decker's return on equity.
Summary
Stanley Black & Decker beats Hubbell on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HUBB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
