MSM vs. VMI, SLGN, SEE, ZWS, CWST, ATKR, FELE, SON, VRRM, and WIRE Should you be buying MSC Industrial Direct stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSC Industrial Direct include Valmont Industries (VMI), Silgan (SLGN), Sealed Air (SEE), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Atkore (ATKR), Franklin Electric (FELE), Sonoco Products (SON), Verra Mobility (VRRM), and Encore Wire (WIRE). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Valmont Industries (NYSE:VMI ) and MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE:MSM ) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
MSC Industrial Direct received 70 more outperform votes than Valmont Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.76% of users gave Valmont Industries an outperform vote while only 53.29% of users gave MSC Industrial Direct an outperform vote.
MSC Industrial Direct has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Valmont Industries. MSC Industrial Direct is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valmont Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MSC Industrial Direct has a net margin of 7.89% compared to MSC Industrial Direct's net margin of 3.83%. Valmont Industries' return on equity of 22.58% beat MSC Industrial Direct's return on equity.
Valmont Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. MSC Industrial Direct pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Valmont Industries pays out 31.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MSC Industrial Direct pays out 59.6% 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. Valmont Industries has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and MSC Industrial Direct has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSC Industrial Direct has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valmont Industries currently has a consensus price target of $262.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.60%. MSC Industrial Direct has a consensus price target of $107.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.39%. Given Valmont Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSC Industrial Direct is more favorable than Valmont Industries.
In the previous week, Valmont Industries had 10 more articles in the media than MSC Industrial Direct. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Valmont Industries and 3 mentions for MSC Industrial Direct. Valmont Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat MSC Industrial Direct's score of 0.70 indicating that MSC Industrial Direct is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary MSC Industrial Direct beats Valmont Industries on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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