World Kinect (WKC) Competitors

SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) and World Kinect (NYSE:WKC) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SITE or WKC?

SiteOne Landscape Supply received 282 more outperform votes than World Kinect when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.98% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote while only 21.43% of users gave World Kinect an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SiteOne Landscape Supply	Outperform Votes 285 53.98%	Underperform Votes 243 46.02%
World Kinect	Outperform Votes 3 21.43%	Underperform Votes 11 78.57%

Do analysts prefer SITE or WKC?

SiteOne Landscape Supply presently has a consensus target price of $154.56, indicating a potential upside of 22.37%. World Kinect has a consensus target price of $29.80, indicating a potential upside of 3.91%. Given SiteOne Landscape Supply's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SiteOne Landscape Supply is more favorable than World Kinect.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SiteOne Landscape Supply	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
World Kinect	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.80

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, SITE or WKC?

SiteOne Landscape Supply has higher earnings, but lower revenue than World Kinect. World Kinect is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SiteOne Landscape Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SiteOne Landscape Supply	$4.54B	1.25	$123.60M	$2.69	46.95
World Kinect	$42.17B	0.04	$52.90M	$1.06	27.06

Is SITE or WKC more profitable?

SiteOne Landscape Supply has a net margin of 2.72% compared to World Kinect's net margin of 0.16%. SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity of 7.93% beat World Kinect's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SiteOne Landscape Supply	2.72%	7.93%	3.98%
World Kinect	0.16%	6.43%	1.82%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of SITE or WKC?

97.1% of World Kinect shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of World Kinect 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, SITE or WKC?

SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Kinect has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer SITE or WKC?

In the previous week, SiteOne Landscape Supply had 3 more articles in the media than World Kinect. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply and 5 mentions for World Kinect. World Kinect's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's score of 1.15 indicating that World Kinect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SiteOne Landscape Supply	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
World Kinect	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

SiteOne Landscape Supply beats World Kinect on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.