TILE vs. HNI, SCS, PBI, ACCO, NL, ARC, AVY, MSA, DXYN, and MHK
Should you be buying Interface stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Interface include HNI (HNI), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), NL Industries (NL), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), The Dixie Group (DXYN), and Mohawk Industries (MHK).
HNI (NYSE:HNI) and Interface (NASDAQ:TILE) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
HNI has higher revenue and earnings than Interface. Interface is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. 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. Interface pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HNI has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. HNI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, HNI had 6 more articles in the media than Interface. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HNI and 4 mentions for Interface. Interface's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat HNI's score of 0.15 indicating that HNI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Interface received 64 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.16% of users gave Interface an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
Interface has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Interface's net margin of 2.57%. Interface's return on equity of 17.75% beat HNI's return on equity.
75.3% of HNI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Interface shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Interface shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HNI presently has a consensus price target of $57.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.15%. Interface has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.73%. Given Interface's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe HNI is more favorable than Interface.
HNI has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interface has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HNI beats Interface on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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