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KAI vs. IEX, GGG, WWD, ITT, NDSN, RBC, SWK, LECO, CR, and MLI

Should you be buying Kadant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kadant include IDEX (IEX), Graco (GGG), Woodward (WWD), ITT (ITT), Nordson (NDSN), RBC Bearings (RBC), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Crane (CR), and Mueller Industries (MLI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.

Kadant vs.

Kadant (NYSE:KAI) and IDEX (NYSE:IEX) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

IDEX has a net margin of 15.45% compared to Kadant's net margin of 10.59%. IDEX's return on equity of 16.08% beat Kadant's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kadant10.59% 14.66% 8.33%
IDEX 15.45%16.08%9.39%

Kadant currently has a consensus target price of $327.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.77%. IDEX has a consensus target price of $212.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.28%. Given IDEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IDEX is more favorable than Kadant.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kadant
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
IDEX
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

96.1% of Kadant shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of IDEX shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kadant shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDEX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Kadant has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDEX has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, IDEX had 8 more articles in the media than Kadant. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for IDEX and 9 mentions for Kadant. IDEX's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Kadant's score of 1.01 indicating that IDEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kadant
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
IDEX
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

IDEX received 158 more outperform votes than Kadant when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.77% of users gave IDEX an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Kadant an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
KadantOutperform Votes
318
58.14%
Underperform Votes
229
41.86%
IDEXOutperform Votes
476
58.77%
Underperform Votes
334
41.23%

IDEX has higher revenue and earnings than Kadant. IDEX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kadant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kadant$1.04B3.49$111.60M$9.4232.87
IDEX$3.28B4.17$505M$6.3128.72

Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. IDEX pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Kadant pays out 14.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDEX pays out 45.0% 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. Kadant has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and IDEX has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years. IDEX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

IDEX beats Kadant on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KAI vs. The Competition

MetricKadantSpecial industry machinery, except metalworking machinery IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.65B$8.20B$7.63B$19.30B
Dividend Yield0.42%0.75%4.58%3.83%
P/E Ratio32.6621.1323.1434.53
Price / Sales3.493.9990.5334.83
Price / Cash30.0422.6326.9417.51
Price / Book4.673.543.974.69
Net Income$111.60M$397.48M$807.24M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.93%-2.73%0.12%-2.43%
1 Month Performance2.27%8.88%10.57%6.27%
1 Year Performance15.06%-1.04%26.15%5.78%

Kadant Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KAI
Kadant
1.6021 of 5 stars
$309.63
+0.9%
$327.50
+5.8%
+12.0%$3.65B$1.04B32.663,100Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
Buyback Announcement
IEX
IDEX
4.3975 of 5 stars
$191.32
+4.3%
$211.25
+10.4%
-16.9%$14.45B$3.28B28.778,870Trending News
Ex-Dividend
GGG
Graco
3.8821 of 5 stars
$86.43
+3.8%
$93.00
+7.6%
+1.8%$14.45B$2.15B30.654,000
WWD
Woodward
3.7127 of 5 stars
$201.47
+2.5%
$195.00
-3.2%
+13.0%$11.96B$3.36B33.758,300Trending News
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ITT
ITT
4.5519 of 5 stars
$149.56
+4.5%
$161.86
+8.2%
+7.1%$11.77B$3.63B23.7410,300Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NDSN
Nordson
4.4225 of 5 stars
$203.00
+5.4%
$250.20
+23.3%
-19.4%$11.55B$2.67B25.837,330News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
RBC
RBC Bearings
2.1063 of 5 stars
$364.74
+4.4%
$354.20
-2.9%
+22.2%$11.46B$1.61B50.103,550Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
SWK
Stanley Black & Decker
4.8133 of 5 stars
$72.62
+15.9%
$92.70
+27.7%
-23.9%$11.23B$15.24B37.4354,200Positive News
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
LECO
Lincoln Electric
4.0669 of 5 stars
$194.89
+4.8%
$216.17
+10.9%
-14.4%$10.88B$4.03B23.9112,000
CR
Crane
3.5232 of 5 stars
$175.17
+3.3%
$178.20
+1.7%
+16.4%$10.07B$2.18B23.2011,000Trending News
Insider Trade
MLI
Mueller Industries
3.5569 of 5 stars
$78.09
+4.1%
$105.00
+34.5%
+30.3%$8.64B$3.92B14.715,140Positive News

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This page (NYSE:KAI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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