Interface (TILE) Competitors

HNI (NYSE:HNI) and Interface (NASDAQ:TILE) are both business services 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.

Is HNI or TILE more profitable?

Interface has a net margin of 6.49% compared to HNI's net margin of 5.52%. Interface's return on equity of 19.91% beat HNI's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HNI	5.52%	18.27%	7.76%
Interface	6.49%	19.91%	7.37%

Do analysts recommend HNI or TILE?

HNI presently has a consensus target price of $63.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.16%. Interface has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 57.15%. Given Interface's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Interface is more favorable than HNI.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HNI	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Interface	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the media favor HNI or TILE?

In the previous week, Interface had 28 more articles in the media than HNI. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Interface and 2 mentions for HNI. HNI's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Interface's score of 0.54 indicating that HNI is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HNI	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Interface	5 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	11 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, HNI or TILE?

HNI has higher revenue and earnings than Interface. Interface is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HNI	$2.53B	0.86	$49.20M	$2.89	16.01
Interface	$1.32B	0.85	$44.52M	$1.47	12.99

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HNI or TILE?

Interface received 67 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.10% of users gave Interface an outperform vote while only 57.67% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HNI	Outperform Votes 248 57.67%	Underperform Votes 182 42.33%
Interface	Outperform Votes 315 59.10%	Underperform Votes 218 40.90%

Which has more volatility and risk, HNI or TILE?

HNI has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interface has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is HNI or TILE a better dividend stock?

HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. HNI pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interface pays out 2.7% 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. HNI has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. HNI is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in HNI or TILE?

75.3% of HNI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Interface shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of HNI shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Interface 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.

Summary

HNI beats Interface on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.