HUBB vs. AVY, IEX, PKG, AXON, CNHI, BALL, SWK, GGG, NDSN, and AMCR
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Axon Enterprise (AXON), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Ball (BALL), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) and Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Avery Dennison pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Avery Dennison pays out 54.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hubbell pays out 37.1% 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. Avery Dennison has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Hubbell has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Avery Dennison has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hubbell has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Avery Dennison currently has a consensus price target of $207.25, suggesting a potential upside of 8.11%. Hubbell has a consensus price target of $315.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.38%. Given Hubbell's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Avery Dennison is more favorable than Hubbell.
Avery Dennison has higher revenue and earnings than Hubbell. Hubbell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avery Dennison, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.0% of Hubbell shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Avery Dennison shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Hubbell shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Avery Dennison received 84 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.52% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave Avery Dennison an outperform vote.
Hubbell has a net margin of 13.56% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 5.83%. Avery Dennison's return on equity of 30.09% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hubbell had 10 more articles in the media than Avery Dennison. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hubbell and 5 mentions for Avery Dennison. Hubbell's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Avery Dennison's score of 0.50 indicating that Avery Dennison is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Avery Dennison beats Hubbell on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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