Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY) Competitors

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) and Albany International (NYSE:AIN) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Do analysts prefer HY or AIN?

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling presently has a consensus target price of $70.00, indicating a potential upside of 66.29%. Albany International has a consensus target price of $79.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.59%. Given Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Albany International.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Albany International	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Which has more volatility & risk, HY or AIN?

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albany International has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in HY or AIN?

46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Albany International shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Albany International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is HY or AIN a better dividend stock?

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Albany International pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 25.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Albany International pays out 43.5% 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. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Albany International has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, HY or AIN?

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has higher revenue and earnings than Albany International. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albany International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling	$4.16B	0.18	$125.90M	$5.61	7.50
Albany International	$1.21B	1.73	$111.12M	$2.48	27.80

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HY or AIN?

Albany International received 11 more outperform votes than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.29% of users gave Albany International an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling	Outperform Votes 241 56.71%	Underperform Votes 184 43.29%
Albany International	Outperform Votes 252 60.29%	Underperform Votes 166 39.71%

Is HY or AIN more profitable?

Albany International has a net margin of 7.92% compared to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's net margin of 3.68%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity of 34.77% beat Albany International's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling	3.68%	34.77%	7.41%
Albany International	7.92%	12.20%	6.69%

Does the media favor HY or AIN?

In the previous week, Albany International had 1 more articles in the media than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Albany International and 3 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Albany International's score of 1.08 indicating that Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Albany International	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and Albany International tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.