MRC vs. RUSHA, HEES, DXPE, WLFC, BXC, TITN, ACET, GWW, URI, and FAST
Should you be buying MRC Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MRC Global include Rush Enterprises (RUSHA), H&E Equipment Services (HEES), DXP Enterprises (DXPE), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), BlueLinx (BXC), Titan Machinery (TITN), Adicet Bio (ACET), W.W. Grainger (GWW), United Rentals (URI), and Fastenal (FAST). These companies are all part of the "trading companies & distributors" industry.
MRC Global vs.
Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ:RUSHA) and MRC Global (NYSE:MRC) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Rush Enterprises presently has a consensus target price of $69.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.75%. MRC Global has a consensus target price of $16.33, indicating a potential upside of 13.07%. Given Rush Enterprises' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Rush Enterprises is more favorable than MRC Global.
In the previous week, Rush Enterprises had 1 more articles in the media than MRC Global. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rush Enterprises and 1 mentions for MRC Global. MRC Global's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Rush Enterprises' score of 0.97 indicating that MRC Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rush Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than MRC Global. Rush Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MRC Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rush Enterprises has a net margin of 3.93% compared to MRC Global's net margin of 3.09%. MRC Global's return on equity of 19.58% beat Rush Enterprises' return on equity.
Rush Enterprises has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MRC Global has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its stock price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.4% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of MRC Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Rush Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of MRC Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MRC Global received 85 more outperform votes than Rush Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.17% of users gave MRC Global an outperform vote while only 59.78% of users gave Rush Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary
MRC Global beats Rush Enterprises on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MRC) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
