KMT vs. EPAC, AZZ, PLUG, SXI, XRX, UFPT, B, AMBP, DNOW, and CENX
Should you be buying Kennametal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kennametal include Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), AZZ (AZZ), Plug Power (PLUG), Standex International (SXI), Xerox (XRX), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Barnes Group (B), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), DNOW (DNOW), and Century Aluminum (CENX). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) and Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE:EPAC) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
Kennametal pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Enerpac Tool Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Kennametal pays out 53.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerpac Tool Group pays out 3.1% 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.
Kennametal presently has a consensus price target of $24.58, suggesting a potential upside of 0.96%. Enerpac Tool Group has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.89%. Given Kennametal's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kennametal is more favorable than Enerpac Tool Group.
Kennametal received 428 more outperform votes than Enerpac Tool Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.87% of users gave Kennametal an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Enerpac Tool Group an outperform vote.
97.7% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Kennametal shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Kennametal has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerpac Tool Group has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kennametal and Kennametal both had 3 articles in the media. Enerpac Tool Group's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Kennametal's score of 0.80 indicating that Enerpac Tool Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enerpac Tool Group has a net margin of 11.75% compared to Kennametal's net margin of 5.86%. Enerpac Tool Group's return on equity of 26.38% beat Kennametal's return on equity.
Kennametal has higher revenue and earnings than Enerpac Tool Group. Kennametal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enerpac Tool Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Enerpac Tool Group beats Kennametal on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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