AIT vs. MSA, RBC, MIDD, SITE, AA, BERY, GTLS, MLI, ADT, and ESAB
Should you be buying Applied Industrial Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Industrial Technologies include MSA Safety (MSA), RBC Bearings (RBC), Middleby (MIDD), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Alcoa (AA), Berry Global Group (BERY), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), ADT (ADT), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 15.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSA Safety pays out 30.2% 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.
93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of 8.36%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 31.51% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.
MSA Safety received 46 more outperform votes than Applied Industrial Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave Applied Industrial Technologies an outperform vote.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 3 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for MSA Safety and 8 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.99 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Applied Industrial Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $201.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.04%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $189.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.19%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than MSA Safety.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats MSA Safety on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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