B vs. MLI, GTLS, CR, DCI, FLS, MIDD, WTS, VMI, TKR, and KAI
Should you be buying Barnes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnes Group include Mueller Industries (MLI), Chart Industries (GTLS), Crane (CR), Donaldson (DCI), Flowserve (FLS), Middleby (MIDD), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), and Kadant (KAI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Barnes Group vs.
Barnes Group (NYSE:B) and Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and institutional ownership.
Barnes Group received 189 more outperform votes than Mueller Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.78% of users gave Mueller Industries an outperform vote while only 57.85% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote.
Barnes Group currently has a consensus price target of $47.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.40%. Mueller Industries has a consensus price target of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.08%. Given Mueller Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mueller Industries is more favorable than Barnes Group.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 16.39% compared to Barnes Group's net margin of -2.46%. Mueller Industries' return on equity of 23.25% beat Barnes Group's return on equity.
90.8% of Barnes Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Barnes Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Barnes Group pays out -83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mueller Industries 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. Barnes Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mueller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Barnes Group. Barnes Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barnes Group has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mueller Industries has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barnes Group had 1 more articles in the media than Mueller Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Barnes Group and 8 mentions for Mueller Industries. Mueller Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Barnes Group's score of 0.73 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mueller Industries beats Barnes Group on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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