JBT vs. KAI, GEF, MWA, UNF, BRC, HI, CSTM, REZI, AIN, and YOU
Should you be buying John Bean Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Bean Technologies include Kadant (KAI), Greif (GEF), Mueller Water Products (MWA), UniFirst (UNF), Brady (BRC), Hillenbrand (HI), Constellium (CSTM), Resideo Technologies (REZI), Albany International (AIN), and Clear Secure (YOU). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Kadant (NYSE:KAI) and John Bean Technologies (NYSE:JBT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
John Bean Technologies received 26 more outperform votes than Kadant when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.62% of users gave John Bean Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.84% of users gave Kadant an outperform vote.
Kadant pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. John Bean Technologies pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Kadant pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John Bean Technologies pays out 2.1% 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. Kadant has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Kadant is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
96.1% of Kadant shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of John Bean Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kadant shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of John Bean Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
John Bean Technologies has a net margin of 36.12% compared to John Bean Technologies' net margin of 11.53%. John Bean Technologies' return on equity of 15.60% beat Kadant's return on equity.
Kadant presently has a consensus price target of $360.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.02%. John Bean Technologies has a consensus price target of $121.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.34%. Given Kadant's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe John Bean Technologies is more favorable than Kadant.
John Bean Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Kadant. John Bean Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kadant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kadant has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Bean Technologies has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kadant had 1 more articles in the media than John Bean Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Kadant and 5 mentions for John Bean Technologies. Kadant's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat John Bean Technologies' score of 0.71 indicating that John Bean Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kadant beats John Bean Technologies on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding JBT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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