SCS vs. HNI, ADV, LUMN, MLNK, MEG, GCT, AVPT, BBU, MAX, and VVX
Should you be buying Steelcase stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steelcase include HNI (HNI), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), MeridianLink (MLNK), Montrose Environmental Group (MEG), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), AvePoint (AVPT), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), MediaAlpha (MAX), and V2X (VVX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
HNI has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steelcase has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Steelcase has higher revenue and earnings than HNI. Steelcase is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Steelcase shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Steelcase shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, HNI had 7 more articles in the media than Steelcase. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HNI and 1 mentions for Steelcase. Steelcase's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat HNI's score of 0.00 indicating that HNI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Steelcase received 73 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Steelcase an outperform vote while only 56.56% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
HNI currently has a consensus price target of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.76%. Steelcase has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.43%. Given Steelcase's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than Steelcase.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Steelcase pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. HNI pays out 125.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Steelcase pays out 58.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Steelcase is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Steelcase has a net margin of 2.57% compared to Steelcase's net margin of 2.03%. Steelcase's return on equity of 16.97% beat HNI's return on equity.
Summary
Steelcase beats HNI on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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