KAI vs. JBT, ATS, ALRM, REZI, HI, UNF, GEF, MWA, BRC, and CSTM
Should you be buying Kadant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kadant include John Bean Technologies (JBT), ATS (ATS), Alarm.com (ALRM), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Hillenbrand (HI), UniFirst (UNF), Greif (GEF), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Brady (BRC), and Constellium (CSTM). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Kadant (NYSE:KAI) and John Bean Technologies (NYSE:JBT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
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.
Kadant has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Bean Technologies has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.1% of Kadant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of John Bean Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kadant shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of John Bean Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. John Bean Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kadant pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John Bean Technologies pays out 2.1% 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.
Kadant presently has a consensus target price of $360.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.02%. John Bean Technologies has a consensus target price of $121.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.34%. Given John Bean Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe John Bean Technologies is more favorable than Kadant.
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 news media.
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.
Summary
Kadant and John Bean Technologies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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