MLI vs. WIRE, ARNC, FLS, ATS, CWST, FELE, CR, ZWS, SLGN, and ATKR
Should you be buying Mueller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Industries include Encore Wire (WIRE), Arconic (ARNC), Flowserve (FLS), ATS (ATS), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Franklin Electric (FELE), Crane (CR), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Silgan (SLGN), and Atkore (ATKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Mueller Industries vs.
Encore Wire (NASDAQ:WIRE) and Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Encore Wire received 75 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.71% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 58.76% of users gave Encore Wire an outperform vote.
Encore Wire currently has a consensus target price of $250.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.44%. Given Encore Wire's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Encore Wire is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
99.2% of Encore Wire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Encore Wire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Encore Wire has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mueller Industries. Encore Wire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Encore Wire has a net margin of 22.87% compared to Mueller Industries' net margin of 17.07%. Encore Wire's return on equity of 39.17% beat Mueller Industries' return on equity.
Encore Wire pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Encore Wire pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Industries pays out 10.1% 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. Mueller Industries has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Mueller Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Mueller Industries had 3 more articles in the media than Encore Wire. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Mueller Industries and 5 mentions for Encore Wire. Encore Wire's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Mueller Industries' score of 0.63 indicating that Encore Wire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Encore Wire has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Encore Wire beats Mueller Industries on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MLI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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