MSA vs. AIT, RBC, SITE, MIDD, BERY, ESAB, GTLS, AA, ATKR, and FLS
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), RBC Bearings (RBC), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), ESAB (ESAB), Chart Industries (GTLS), Alcoa (AA), Atkore (ATKR), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Applied Industrial Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than MSA Safety. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies and 4 mentions for MSA Safety. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.71 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSA Safety received 46 more outperform votes than Applied Industrial Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave Applied Industrial Technologies an outperform vote.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. MSA Safety pays out 129.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 15.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
MSA Safety presently has a consensus price target of $189.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.42%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus price target of $201.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.98%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than MSA Safety.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.39% compared to MSA Safety's net margin of 3.28%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 32.44% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats MSA Safety on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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