HUBB vs. BALL, TS, AXON, IEX, DOV, AVY, PKG, GGG, NDSN, and CNHI
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include Ball (BALL), Tenaris (TS), Axon Enterprise (AXON), IDEX (IEX), Dover (DOV), Avery Dennison (AVY), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and CNH Industrial (CNHI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hubbell received 309 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.11% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote while only 15.15% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Hubbell has a net margin of 14.14% compared to Ball's net margin of 5.04%. Hubbell's return on equity of 30.82% beat Ball's return on equity.
Hubbell currently has a consensus price target of $363.57, suggesting a potential downside of 9.15%. Ball has a consensus price target of $63.33, suggesting a potential downside of 2.23%. Given Ball's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ball is more favorable than Hubbell.
In the previous week, Ball had 55 more articles in the media than Hubbell. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Ball and 20 mentions for Hubbell. Hubbell's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Ball's score of 0.31 indicating that Hubbell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hubbell pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ball pays out 35.7% 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.
Hubbell has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ball. Hubbell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ball, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.0% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.8% of Ball shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Hubbell shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Ball shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Hubbell beats Ball on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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