MLI vs. WIRE, GTLS, BERY, ADT, ESAB, FLS, TKR, AA, SITE, and MIDD
Should you be buying Mueller Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mueller Industries include Encore Wire (WIRE), Chart Industries (GTLS), Berry Global Group (BERY), ADT (ADT), ESAB (ESAB), Flowserve (FLS), Timken (TKR), Alcoa (AA), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), and Middleby (MIDD). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Encore Wire (NASDAQ:WIRE) and Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 17.22% compared to Mueller Industries' net margin of 12.45%. Encore Wire's return on equity of 24.69% beat Mueller Industries' return on equity.
99.8% of Encore Wire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Encore Wire shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Mueller Industries 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.
Encore Wire has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Industries has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Encore Wire pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Encore Wire pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Industries pays out 16.0% 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. Mueller Industries has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Mueller Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Mueller Industries had 5 more articles in the media than Encore Wire. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mueller Industries and 7 mentions for Encore Wire. Encore Wire's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Mueller Industries' score of 0.99 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Encore Wire currently has a consensus price target of $273.33, suggesting a potential downside of 2.58%. Given Mueller Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Encore Wire is more favorable than Mueller Industries.
Mueller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Encore Wire. Mueller Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encore Wire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Encore Wire received 78 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.66% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 57.42% of users gave Encore Wire an outperform vote.
Summary
Mueller Industries beats Encore Wire on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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