B vs. MLI, MIDD, GTLS, DCI, FLS, WTS, VMI, TKR, KAI, and MWA
Should you be buying Barnes Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barnes Group include Mueller Industries (MLI), Middleby (MIDD), Chart Industries (GTLS), Donaldson (DCI), Flowserve (FLS), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), Kadant (KAI), and Mueller Water Products (MWA). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Barnes Group vs.
Mueller Industries (NYSE:MLI) and Barnes Group (NYSE:B) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
94.5% of Mueller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Barnes Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Mueller Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Barnes Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mueller Industries has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barnes Group has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mueller Industries had 12 more articles in the media than Barnes Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Mueller Industries and 1 mentions for Barnes Group. Mueller Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Barnes Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mueller Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mueller Industries currently has a consensus price target of $105.00, indicating a potential upside of 33.91%. Barnes Group has a consensus price target of $47.67, indicating a potential upside of 0.39%. Given Mueller Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mueller Industries is more favorable than Barnes Group.
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.
Mueller Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Barnes Group pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Mueller Industries pays out 15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barnes Group pays out -62.3% 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.
Mueller Industries has a net margin of 16.05% compared to Barnes Group's net margin of -2.46%. Mueller Industries' return on equity of 22.97% beat Barnes Group's return on equity.
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 57.51% of users gave Barnes Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Mueller Industries beats Barnes Group on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:B) was last updated on 2/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
