HY vs. GRC, SCSC, TWI, MRC, CENX, KALU, ASTE, PRLB, POWL, and OFLX
Should you be buying Hyster-Yale Materials Handling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling include Gorman-Rupp (GRC), ScanSource (SCSC), Titan International (TWI), MRC Global (MRC), Century Aluminum (CENX), Kaiser Aluminum (KALU), Astec Industries (ASTE), Proto Labs (PRLB), Powell Industries (POWL), and Omega Flex (OFLX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) and Gorman-Rupp (NYSE:GRC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
Gorman-Rupp has a net margin of 4.40% compared to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's net margin of 2.66%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity of 40.60% beat Gorman-Rupp's return on equity.
Gorman-Rupp received 74 more outperform votes than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.53% of users gave Gorman-Rupp an outperform vote while only 56.58% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling had 2 more articles in the media than Gorman-Rupp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and 1 mentions for Gorman-Rupp. Gorman-Rupp's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's score of 0.27 indicating that Gorman-Rupp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling presently has a consensus price target of $77.50, indicating a potential upside of 58.45%. Gorman-Rupp has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.83%. Given Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Gorman-Rupp.
Gorman-Rupp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gorman-Rupp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gorman-Rupp has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
44.3% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Gorman-Rupp shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Gorman-Rupp 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.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Gorman-Rupp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 20.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gorman-Rupp pays out 66.7% 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. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling beats Gorman-Rupp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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