NL vs. TILE, SCS, PBI, ACCO, ARC, AVY, MSA, HNI, KRO, and VHI
Should you be buying NL Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NL Industries include Interface (TILE), Steelcase (SCS), Pitney Bowes (PBI), ACCO Brands (ACCO), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Avery Dennison (AVY), MSA Safety (MSA), HNI (HNI), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), and Valhi (VHI).
NL Industries vs.
NL Industries (NYSE:NL) and Interface (NASDAQ:TILE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
10.7% of NL Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Interface shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of NL Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Interface shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Interface had 5 more articles in the media than NL Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Interface and 1 mentions for NL Industries. Interface's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat NL Industries' score of 0.44 indicating that Interface is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NL Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. NL Industries pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Interface pays out 2.8% 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.
NL Industries has a net margin of 38.69% compared to Interface's net margin of 6.49%. Interface's return on equity of 19.91% beat NL Industries' return on equity.
Interface has higher revenue and earnings than NL Industries. NL Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Interface, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NL Industries has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Interface has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Interface received 121 more outperform votes than NL Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.75% of users gave NL Industries an outperform vote while only 58.79% of users gave Interface an outperform vote.
NL Industries currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential downside of 23.37%. Interface has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.95%. Given Interface's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Interface is more favorable than NL Industries.
Summary
Interface beats NL Industries on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NL) was last updated on 12/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
