KMT vs. FLS, VMI, TKR, MWA, KAI, ESE, NPO, B, AIN, and SXI
Should you be buying Kennametal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kennametal include Flowserve (FLS), Valmont Industries (VMI), Timken (TKR), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Kadant (KAI), ESCO Technologies (ESE), Enpro (NPO), Barnes Group (B), Albany International (AIN), and Standex International (SXI). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Kennametal vs.
Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) and Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Flowserve has a net margin of 6.20% compared to Kennametal's net margin of 4.76%. Flowserve's return on equity of 17.08% beat Kennametal's return on equity.
Flowserve has higher revenue and earnings than Kennametal. Kennametal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowserve, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flowserve has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kennametal has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowserve presently has a consensus price target of $68.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.79%. Kennametal has a consensus price target of $26.60, indicating a potential upside of 19.77%. Given Flowserve's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Kennametal.
93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Flowserve shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Kennametal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Kennametal pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Flowserve pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kennametal pays out 65.6% 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.
In the previous week, Flowserve had 9 more articles in the media than Kennametal. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Flowserve and 4 mentions for Kennametal. Kennametal's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Flowserve's score of 1.17 indicating that Kennametal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flowserve received 161 more outperform votes than Kennametal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.25% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 54.92% of users gave Kennametal an outperform vote.
Summary
Flowserve beats Kennametal on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KMT) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
