SCX vs. RBCP, ROLL, YELL, TRSG, DRTT, HRT, FATH, LASE, DCFC, and ADSEW
Should you be buying L.S. Starrett stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of L.S. Starrett include RBC Bearings (RBCP), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Yellow (YELL), Tungray Technologies (TRSG), DIRTT Environmental Solutions (DRTT), HireRight (HRT), Fathom Digital Manufacturing (FATH), Laser Photonics (LASE), Tritium DCFC (DCFC), and ADS-TEC Energy (ADSEW). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBCP) and L.S. Starrett (NYSE:SCX) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, RBC Bearings had 2 more articles in the media than L.S. Starrett. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for RBC Bearings and 1 mentions for L.S. Starrett. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat L.S. Starrett's score of -0.33 indicating that L.S. Starrett is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RBC Bearings pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. L.S. Starrett pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. L.S. Starrett pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RBC Bearings has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. RBC Bearings is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
L.S. Starrett has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RBC Bearings.
L.S. Starrett received 183 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users.
L.S. Starrett has a net margin of 5.02% compared to L.S. Starrett's net margin of 0.00%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 2.44% beat L.S. Starrett's return on equity.
43.4% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of L.S. Starrett shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
L.S. Starrett beats RBC Bearings on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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