HUBB vs. BALL, TS, AXON, DOV, IEX, 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), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), 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.
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Ball has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hubbell has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hubbell has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
86.5% of Ball shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.2% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ball shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Hubbell shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ball had 49 more articles in the media than Hubbell. MarketBeat recorded 65 mentions for Ball and 16 mentions for Hubbell. Ball's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Hubbell's score of 0.25 indicating that Hubbell is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hubbell received 309 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.08% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote while only 15.71% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
Ball currently has a consensus target price of $65.58, indicating a potential upside of 0.20%. Hubbell has a consensus target price of $383.57, indicating a potential downside of 4.65%. Given Hubbell's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ball is more favorable than Hubbell.
Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ball pays out 35.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hubbell pays out 34.7% 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 increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years.
Hubbell has a net margin of 14.14% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 5.04%. Ball's return on equity of 30.82% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
Summary
Hubbell beats Ball on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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