MSA vs. MIDD, AIT, RBC, SITE, AA, BERY, GTLS, MLI, ADT, and ESAB
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Middleby (MIDD), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), RBC Bearings (RBC), 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.
Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to MSA Safety's net margin of 9.82%. Middleby's return on equity of 31.51% beat MSA Safety's return on equity.
Middleby presently has a consensus price target of $156.14, suggesting a potential upside of 17.33%. MSA Safety has a consensus price target of $189.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.19%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Middleby is more favorable than MSA Safety.
98.6% of Middleby shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of MSA Safety shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Middleby shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Middleby has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Middleby and Middleby both had 10 articles in the media. Middleby's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.48 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Middleby received 80 more outperform votes than MSA Safety when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 59.14% of users gave Middleby an outperform vote.
Middleby has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. Middleby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Middleby beats MSA Safety on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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