SNHY vs. TKR, KAI, JBT, NPO, MWA, ESE, AIN, B, SXI, and KMT
Should you be buying Sun Hydraulics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sun Hydraulics include Timken (TKR), Kadant (KAI), John Bean Technologies (JBT), Enpro (NPO), Mueller Water Products (MWA), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Albany International (AIN), Barnes Group (B), Standex International (SXI), and Kennametal (KMT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Sun Hydraulics vs.
Sun Hydraulics (NASDAQ:SNHY) and Timken (NYSE:TKR) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Sun Hydraulics has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timken has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.6% of Sun Hydraulics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Timken shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Sun Hydraulics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Timken shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Timken has higher revenue and earnings than Sun Hydraulics. Timken is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Hydraulics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Timken had 10 more articles in the media than Sun Hydraulics. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Timken and 0 mentions for Sun Hydraulics. Timken's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Sun Hydraulics' score of 0.00 indicating that Timken is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Timken has a consensus price target of $92.40, indicating a potential upside of 20.61%. Given Timken's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Timken is more favorable than Sun Hydraulics.
Sun Hydraulics has a net margin of 9.19% compared to Timken's net margin of 7.41%. Timken's return on equity of 14.82% beat Sun Hydraulics' return on equity.
Sun Hydraulics pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Timken pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Sun Hydraulics pays out 15.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Timken pays out 28.3% 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. Timken has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Timken is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Timken received 209 more outperform votes than Sun Hydraulics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.92% of users gave Timken an outperform vote while only 56.66% of users gave Sun Hydraulics an outperform vote.
Summary
Timken beats Sun Hydraulics on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SNHY) was last updated on 1/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
