JBT vs. KAI, GEF, MWA, UNF, BRC, HI, CSTM, REZI, AIN, and YOU
Should you be buying John Bean Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Bean Technologies include Kadant (KAI), Greif (GEF), Mueller Water Products (MWA), UniFirst (UNF), Brady (BRC), Hillenbrand (HI), Constellium (CSTM), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Albany International (AIN), and Clear Secure (YOU). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
John Bean Technologies (NYSE:JBT) and Kadant (NYSE:KAI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
John Bean Technologies has a net margin of 36.12% compared to Kadant's net margin of 11.53%. Kadant's return on equity of 15.60% beat John Bean Technologies' return on equity.
John Bean Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. John Bean Technologies pays out 2.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kadant pays out 13.3% 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.
John Bean Technologies received 26 more outperform votes than Kadant when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.62% of users gave John Bean Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.84% of users gave Kadant an outperform vote.
John Bean Technologies has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kadant has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
John Bean Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $121.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.34%. Kadant has a consensus target price of $360.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.02%. Given John Bean Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe John Bean Technologies is more favorable than Kadant.
John Bean Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Kadant. John Bean Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kadant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kadant had 1 more articles in the media than John Bean Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kadant and 4 mentions for John Bean Technologies. John Bean Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Kadant's score of 0.71 indicating that John Bean Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
98.9% of John Bean Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Kadant shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of John Bean Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kadant shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
John Bean Technologies and Kadant tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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