MSM vs. GIC, CWST, SLGN, ZWS, SON, SEE, FELE, WIRE, ADT, and GTLS
Should you be buying MSC Industrial Direct stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSC Industrial Direct include Global Industrial (GIC), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Silgan (SLGN), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Sonoco Products (SON), Sealed Air (SEE), Franklin Electric (FELE), Encore Wire (WIRE), ADT (ADT), and Chart Industries (GTLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Global Industrial (NYSE:GIC) and MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE:MSM) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
31.2% of Global Industrial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by institutional investors. 66.3% of Global Industrial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Industrial had 27 more articles in the media than MSC Industrial Direct. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Global Industrial and 1 mentions for MSC Industrial Direct. Global Industrial's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat MSC Industrial Direct's score of 0.02 indicating that MSC Industrial Direct is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSC Industrial Direct received 394 more outperform votes than Global Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.23% of users gave MSC Industrial Direct an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Global Industrial an outperform vote.
MSC Industrial Direct has a consensus price target of $107.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.79%. Given Global Industrial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MSC Industrial Direct is more favorable than Global Industrial.
Global Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. MSC Industrial Direct pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Global Industrial pays out 54.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSC Industrial Direct pays out 59.6% 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. Global Industrial has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and MSC Industrial Direct has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Global Industrial has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSC Industrial Direct has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MSC Industrial Direct has higher revenue and earnings than Global Industrial. MSC Industrial Direct is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Industrial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MSC Industrial Direct has a net margin of 7.89% compared to MSC Industrial Direct's net margin of 5.34%. MSC Industrial Direct's return on equity of 28.39% beat Global Industrial's return on equity.
Summary
MSC Industrial Direct beats Global Industrial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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