HUBB vs. BALL, AXON, TS, AVY, DOV, IEX, ZBRA, PKG, NDSN, and AMCR
Should you be buying Hubbell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hubbell include Ball (BALL), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Tenaris (TS), Avery Dennison (AVY), Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Nordson (NDSN), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
Hubbell received 308 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.87% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote while only 15.58% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
88.2% of Hubbell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Hubbell shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ball has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 13.23%. Hubbell's return on equity of 29.55% beat Ball's return on equity.
Hubbell has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ball. Ball is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ball had 29 more articles in the media than Hubbell. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Ball and 23 mentions for Hubbell. Hubbell's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Ball's score of 0.29 indicating that Hubbell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hubbell presently has a consensus price target of $386.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.57%. Ball has a consensus price target of $69.23, indicating a potential downside of 1.25%. Given Ball's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ball is more favorable than Hubbell.
Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Hubbell pays out 36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ball pays out 6.0% 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.
Summary
Hubbell beats Ball on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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