TEX vs. HY, WIRE, VRRM, ENS, FELE, BDC, SLGN, ALRM, KAI, and VMI
Should you be buying Terex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Terex include Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (HY), Encore Wire (WIRE), Verra Mobility (VRRM), EnerSys (ENS), Franklin Electric (FELE), Belden (BDC), Silgan (SLGN), Alarm.com (ALRM), Kadant (KAI), and Valmont Industries (VMI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) and Terex (NYSE:TEX) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Terex has higher revenue and earnings than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Terex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Terex has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Terex's net margin of 3.61%. Terex's return on equity of 42.94% beat Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Terex pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Terex pays out 9.0% 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. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Terex has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Terex received 365 more outperform votes than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.11% of users gave Terex an outperform vote while only 56.55% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote.
46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Terex shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Terex shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling had 8 more articles in the media than Terex. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and 7 mentions for Terex. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Terex's score of 0.43 indicating that Terex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling presently has a consensus target price of $88.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.81%. Terex has a consensus target price of $65.17, indicating a potential upside of 6.55%. Given Terex's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Terex.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Terex has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Terex beats Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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