UNF vs. MGRC, KAR, HCSG, VVI, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, SCI, and HRB
Should you be buying UniFirst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UniFirst include McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), Service Co. International (SCI), and H&R Block (HRB).
UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
UniFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. McGrath RentCorp pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. UniFirst pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McGrath RentCorp pays out 37.0% 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.
78.2% of UniFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of UniFirst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
McGrath RentCorp has a net margin of 14.70% compared to UniFirst's net margin of 4.92%. McGrath RentCorp's return on equity of 13.43% beat UniFirst's return on equity.
UniFirst presently has a consensus price target of $177.75, suggesting a potential upside of 11.98%. McGrath RentCorp has a consensus price target of $116.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.20%. Given UniFirst's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UniFirst is more favorable than McGrath RentCorp.
UniFirst has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
McGrath RentCorp received 19 more outperform votes than UniFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.34% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave UniFirst an outperform vote.
McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UniFirst. McGrath RentCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UniFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, McGrath RentCorp had 4 more articles in the media than UniFirst. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for McGrath RentCorp and 0 mentions for UniFirst. McGrath RentCorp's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat UniFirst's score of 0.00 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
McGrath RentCorp beats UniFirst on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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