TS vs. HUBB, BALL, AXON, AVY, IEX, ZBRA, PKG, DOV, NDSN, and AMCR Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Dover (DOV), Nordson (NDSN), and Amcor (AMCR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Tenaris (NYSE:TS ) and Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB ) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tenaris currently has a consensus target price of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 18.52%. Hubbell has a consensus target price of $386.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.57%. Given Tenaris' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Hubbell.
Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Tenaris pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hubbell pays out 36.4% 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. Tenaris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
10.5% of Tenaris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.2% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Tenaris shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Hubbell shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hubbell had 19 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Hubbell and 4 mentions for Tenaris. Tenaris' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Hubbell's score of 0.57 indicating that Tenaris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Hubbell. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Hubbell's net margin of 13.23%. Hubbell's return on equity of 29.55% beat Tenaris' return on equity.
Tenaris received 90 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Summary Tenaris beats Hubbell on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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