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H&E Equipment Services (HEES) Competitors

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$88.12 -0.63 (-0.71%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

HEES vs. GATX, AL, MSM, RUSHA, DXPE, WLFC, MRC, BXC, TITN, and ACET

Should you be buying H&E Equipment Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&E Equipment Services include GATX (GATX), Air Lease (AL), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), MRC Global (MRC), BlueLinx (BXC), Titan Machinery (TITN), and Adicet Bio (ACET). These companies are all part of the "trading companies & distributors" industry.

H&E Equipment Services vs.

H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) and GATX (NYSE:GATX) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.

H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GATX has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

GATX has a net margin of 17.76% compared to H&E Equipment Services' net margin of 9.47%. H&E Equipment Services' return on equity of 25.46% beat GATX's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
H&E Equipment Services9.47% 25.46% 5.16%
GATX 17.76%11.98%2.37%

H&E Equipment Services pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. GATX pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. H&E Equipment Services pays out 27.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GATX pays out 31.0% 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. GATX has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. GATX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, H&E Equipment Services had 26 more articles in the media than GATX. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for H&E Equipment Services and 4 mentions for GATX. GATX's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat H&E Equipment Services' score of 0.46 indicating that GATX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
H&E Equipment Services
10 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
GATX
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

GATX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than H&E Equipment Services. GATX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than H&E Equipment Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
H&E Equipment Services$1.47B2.20$169.29M$3.9422.37
GATX$1.41B3.90$259.20M$7.4820.71

GATX received 61 more outperform votes than H&E Equipment Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.57% of users gave GATX an outperform vote while only 57.92% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
H&E Equipment ServicesOutperform Votes
267
57.92%
Underperform Votes
194
42.08%
GATXOutperform Votes
328
58.57%
Underperform Votes
232
41.43%

84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of GATX shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of GATX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

H&E Equipment Services presently has a consensus target price of $69.25, indicating a potential downside of 21.41%. GATX has a consensus target price of $151.80, indicating a potential downside of 2.02%. Given GATX's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GATX is more favorable than H&E Equipment Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
H&E Equipment Services
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
GATX
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Summary

GATX beats H&E Equipment Services on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HEES vs. The Competition

MetricH&E Equipment Servicesequipment rental & leasing IndustryIndustrial SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.61B$7.75B$9.42B$8.99B
Dividend Yield2.50%1.56%2.17%4.04%
P/E Ratio22.37111.0617.7213.54
Price / Sales2.204.174.6476.16
Price / Cash2.8113.4918.4035.97
Price / Book6.0116.214.754.79
Net Income$169.29M$240.80M$403.01M$225.00M
7 Day Performance100.55%13.63%4.36%2.62%
1 Month Performance80.61%11.41%5.17%3.81%
1 Year Performance81.17%48.08%39.35%20.10%

H&E Equipment Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HEES
H&E Equipment Services
3.968 of 5 stars
$88.12
-0.7%
$69.25
-21.4%
+81.2%$3.23B$1.47B22.372,765Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
GATX
GATX
1.9315 of 5 stars
$149.91
0.0%
$151.80
+1.3%
+32.0%$5.32B$1.54B20.042,020Upcoming Earnings
AL
Air Lease
4.6687 of 5 stars
$44.91
-0.3%
$57.60
+28.3%
+15.5%$5.00B$2.74B10.23150
MSM
MSC Industrial Direct
3.7215 of 5 stars
$81.83
+2.4%
$81.00
-1.0%
-15.6%$4.57B$3.82B17.877,423
RUSHA
Rush Enterprises
4.4398 of 5 stars
$55.33
+1.4%
$69.00
+24.7%
+36.3%$4.37B$7.82B14.687,860
DXPE
DXP Enterprises
3.1781 of 5 stars
$89.69
-1.4%
$75.00
-16.4%
+227.2%$1.41B$1.74B23.121,723
WLFC
Willis Lease Finance
2.8768 of 5 stars
$204.00
-1.4%
N/A+323.1%$1.35B$530.71M14.46240Gap Down
MRC
MRC Global
3.4391 of 5 stars
$13.19
+1.7%
$16.33
+23.8%
+41.2%$1.12B$3.20B15.162,800Positive News
BXC
BlueLinx
3.0612 of 5 stars
$100.03
+4.1%
$135.67
+35.6%
-3.9%$838.35M$2.95B29.082,100
TITN
Titan Machinery
3.4059 of 5 stars
$13.69
+0.4%
$16.80
+22.7%
-40.5%$316.60M$2.79B10.222,290News Coverage
Positive News
ACET
Adicet Bio
1.9214 of 5 stars
$0.88
-3.8%
$7.50
+750.0%
-62.8%$72.71M$24.99M-0.5290

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This page (NASDAQ:HEES) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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