Textainer Group (NYSE:TGH) Vs. FAST, GWW, URI, WSO, WCC, MSM, AL, AIT, BECN, and GATX
Should you be buying Textainer Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Textainer Group include Fastenal (FAST), W.W. Grainger (GWW), United Rentals (URI), Watsco (WSO), WESCO International (WCC), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Air Lease (AL), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), and GATX (GATX). These companies are all part of the "trading companies & distributors" industry.
Textainer Group vs.
Textainer Group (NYSE:TGH) and W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Textainer Group pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. W.W. Grainger pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Textainer Group pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. W.W. Grainger pays out 37.0% 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. Textainer Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Textainer Group presently has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.14%. W.W. Grainger has a consensus price target of $476.36, suggesting a potential downside of 3.76%. Given Textainer Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Textainer Group is more favorable than W.W. Grainger.
W.W. Grainger received 231 more outperform votes than Textainer Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.84% of users gave W.W. Grainger an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Textainer Group an outperform vote.
W.W. Grainger has higher revenue and earnings than Textainer Group. Textainer Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than W.W. Grainger, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, W.W. Grainger had 2 more articles in the media than Textainer Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for W.W. Grainger and 1 mentions for Textainer Group. W.W. Grainger's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Textainer Group's score of 0.00 indicating that W.W. Grainger is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.0% of Textainer Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of W.W. Grainger shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of W.W. Grainger shares are owned by company 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.
Textainer Group has a net margin of 35.11% compared to W.W. Grainger's net margin of 7.35%. W.W. Grainger's return on equity of 45.31% beat Textainer Group's return on equity.
Textainer Group has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W.W. Grainger has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
W.W. Grainger beats Textainer Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TGH 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.
Textainer Group (NYSE:TGH) vs. Its Competitors
Textainer Group Competitors List
