HY vs. MWA, NPO, ESE, AIN, B, SXI, KMT, TNC, CMCO, and GRC
Should you be buying Hyster-Yale Materials Handling stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling include Mueller Water Products (MWA), Enpro (NPO), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Albany International (AIN), Barnes Group (B), Standex International (SXI), Kennametal (KMT), Tennant (TNC), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), and Gorman-Rupp (GRC). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling vs.
Mueller Water Products (NYSE:MWA) and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (NYSE:HY) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Mueller Water Products has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mueller Water Products had 4 more articles in the media than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Mueller Water Products and 1 mentions for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling. Mueller Water Products' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's score of 0.50 indicating that Mueller Water Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mueller Water Products has a net margin of 8.82% compared to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's net margin of 3.68%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's return on equity of 34.77% beat Mueller Water Products' return on equity.
91.7% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Mueller Water Products shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has higher revenue and earnings than Mueller Water Products. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mueller Water Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mueller Water Products pays an annual dividend of $0.27 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Mueller Water Products pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling pays out 15.7% 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. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mueller Water Products presently has a consensus target price of $22.20, suggesting a potential downside of 3.21%. Hyster-Yale Materials Handling has a consensus target price of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 48.37%. Given Hyster-Yale Materials Handling's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hyster-Yale Materials Handling is more favorable than Mueller Water Products.
Mueller Water Products received 209 more outperform votes than Hyster-Yale Materials Handling when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.57% of users gave Mueller Water Products an outperform vote while only 56.77% of users gave Hyster-Yale Materials Handling an outperform vote.
Summary
Mueller Water Products and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:HY) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
