MLKN vs. HNI, LZB, SCS, AMWD, KNL, DLB, TAL, WSC, MHK, and LBRDA
Should you be buying MillerKnoll stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MillerKnoll include HNI (HNI), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Steelcase (SCS), American Woodmark (AMWD), Knoll (KNL), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), TAL Education Group (TAL), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Mohawk Industries (MHK), and Liberty Broadband (LBRDA).
MillerKnoll (NASDAQ:MLKN) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
HNI received 232 more outperform votes than MillerKnoll when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.33% of users gave MillerKnoll an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
87.5% of MillerKnoll shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of MillerKnoll shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MillerKnoll presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.35%. HNI has a consensus target price of $57.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.15%. Given HNI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than MillerKnoll.
HNI has a net margin of 2.57% compared to MillerKnoll's net margin of 1.96%. HNI's return on equity of 17.75% beat MillerKnoll's return on equity.
HNI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MillerKnoll. MillerKnoll is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MillerKnoll pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. MillerKnoll pays out 77.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HNI pays out 97.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, HNI had 4 more articles in the media than MillerKnoll. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HNI and 6 mentions for MillerKnoll. MillerKnoll's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat HNI's score of 0.56 indicating that MillerKnoll is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MillerKnoll has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HNI beats MillerKnoll on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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