AIT vs. AA, MSA, MIDD, GPK, SITE, BERY, ADT, GTLS, MLI, and FLS
Should you be buying Applied Industrial Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Industrial Technologies include Alcoa (AA), MSA Safety (MSA), Middleby (MIDD), Graphic Packaging (GPK), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Berry Global Group (BERY), ADT (ADT), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
Alcoa has a beta of 2.45, indicating that its stock price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alcoa currently has a consensus target price of $35.04, suggesting a potential downside of 21.48%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus target price of $201.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.62%. Given Alcoa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Alcoa.
Alcoa pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Alcoa pays out -10.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 15.5% 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. Applied Industrial Technologies has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Alcoa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Alcoa had 1 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Alcoa and 5 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Alcoa's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 0.42 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Applied Industrial Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alcoa. Alcoa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Industrial Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Applied Industrial Technologies has a net margin of 8.36% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of -6.41%. Alcoa's return on equity of 23.69% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.
Alcoa received 772 more outperform votes than Applied Industrial Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.06% of users gave Alcoa an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave Applied Industrial Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Applied Industrial Technologies beats Alcoa on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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