MLI vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, PNR, SWK, LECO, WWD, and ITT
Should you be buying Mueller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Industries include Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), Pentair (PNR), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), Woodward (WWD), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Dover (NYSE:DOV) and Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Dover had 14 more articles in the media than Mueller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Dover and 7 mentions for Mueller Industries. Dover's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Mueller Industries' score of -0.08 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dover, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dover presently has a consensus price target of $185.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.05%. Given Mueller Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Dover is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Dover pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% 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. Dover has raised its dividend for 69 consecutive years and Mueller Industries has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Mueller Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dover has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dover received 540 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.66% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Dover's net margin of 17.22%. Mueller Industries' return on equity of 25.04% beat Dover's return on equity.
84.5% of Dover shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Dover shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Dover beats Mueller Industries on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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