RBC vs. TKR, MSA, AIT, MIDD, BERY, SITE, AA, GTLS, MLI, and ESAB
Should you be buying RBC Bearings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RBC Bearings include Timken (TKR), MSA Safety (MSA), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Alcoa (AA), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), and ESAB (ESAB). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and Timken (NYSE:TKR) 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 profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Timken had 8 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Timken and 10 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Timken's score of 0.35 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RBC Bearings currently has a consensus target price of $275.86, suggesting a potential downside of 4.64%. Timken has a consensus target price of $87.09, suggesting a potential downside of 3.90%. Given Timken's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Timken is more favorable than RBC Bearings.
Timken has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. Timken is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 12.81% compared to Timken's net margin of 7.99%. Timken's return on equity of 17.98% beat RBC Bearings' return on equity.
89.1% of Timken shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Timken shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Timken received 163 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.74% of users gave Timken an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timken has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Timken beats RBC Bearings on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RBC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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