KMT vs. MLI, MIDD, GTLS, WTS, FLS, VMI, TKR, KAI, NPO, and ESE
Should you be buying Kennametal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kennametal include Mueller Industries (MLI), Middleby (MIDD), Chart Industries (GTLS), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Flowserve (FLS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), Kadant (KAI), Enpro (NPO), and ESCO Technologies (ESE). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) and Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kennametal has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Kennametal pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kennametal pays out 59.3% 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.
In the previous week, Mueller Industries had 10 more articles in the media than Kennametal. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mueller Industries and 2 mentions for Kennametal. Kennametal's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Mueller Industries' score of 0.26 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Kennametal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kennametal has a consensus target price of $23.67, indicating a potential downside of 7.28%. Given Mueller Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kennametal is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
Kennametal received 242 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.66% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Kennametal an outperform vote.
Mueller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Kennametal. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kennametal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 16.19% compared to Mueller Industries' net margin of 5.29%. Kennametal's return on equity of 22.86% beat Mueller Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Mueller Industries beats Kennametal on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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