MIDD vs. AQUA, WBT, SXI, TNC, DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, NDSN, and PNR
Should you be buying Middleby stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Middleby include Evoqua Water Technologies (AQUA), Welbilt (WBT), Standex International (SXI), Tennant (TNC), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Nordson (NDSN), and Pentair (PNR).
Evoqua Water Technologies (NYSE:AQUA) and Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Middleby has a consensus target price of $153.43, suggesting a potential upside of 19.02%. Given Evoqua Water Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Middleby is more favorable than Evoqua Water Technologies.
Evoqua Water Technologies has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its stock price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Middleby has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than Evoqua Water Technologies. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evoqua Water Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Middleby received 176 more outperform votes than Evoqua Water Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.25% of users gave Evoqua Water Technologies an outperform vote while only 59.05% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote.
Middleby has a net margin of 9.82% compared to Middleby's net margin of 4.24%. Middleby's return on equity of 16.97% beat Evoqua Water Technologies' return on equity.
93.5% of Evoqua Water Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.6% of Middleby shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Evoqua Water Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Middleby shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Middleby had 11 more articles in the media than Evoqua Water Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Middleby and 0 mentions for Evoqua Water Technologies. Evoqua Water Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Middleby's score of 0.64 indicating that Middleby is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Middleby beats Evoqua Water Technologies on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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