SITE vs. MSA, AIT, RBC, MIDD, ATKR, ESAB, BERY, AA, MLI, and GTLS
Should you be buying SiteOne Landscape Supply stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SiteOne Landscape Supply include MSA Safety (MSA), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), RBC Bearings (RBC), Middleby (MIDD), Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), Berry Global Group (BERY), Alcoa (AA), Mueller Industries (MLI), and Chart Industries (GTLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 4 more articles in the media than SiteOne Landscape Supply. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for MSA Safety and 6 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply. SiteOne Landscape Supply's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.72 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. SiteOne Landscape Supply is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSA Safety received 19 more outperform votes than SiteOne Landscape Supply when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 55.04% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote.
MSA Safety currently has a consensus target price of $189.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.38%. SiteOne Landscape Supply has a consensus target price of $172.88, suggesting a potential upside of 6.36%. Given MSA Safety's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SiteOne Landscape Supply is more favorable than MSA Safety.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has a net margin of 4.03% compared to SiteOne Landscape Supply's net margin of 3.28%. SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity of 32.44% beat MSA Safety's return on equity.
Summary
MSA Safety beats SiteOne Landscape Supply on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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