HEES vs. AZZ, SXI, XRX, AMBP, EPAC, KMT, TNC, LZ, OI, and B
Should you be buying H&E Equipment Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&E Equipment Services include AZZ (AZZ), Standex International (SXI), Xerox (XRX), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Kennametal (KMT), Tennant (TNC), LegalZoom.com (LZ), O-I Glass (OI), and Barnes Group (B). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
H&E Equipment Services (NASDAQ:HEES) and AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
H&E Equipment Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AZZ. H&E Equipment Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AZZ, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
H&E Equipment Services has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its share price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AZZ has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
H&E Equipment Services has a net margin of 11.52% compared to AZZ's net margin of 6.61%. H&E Equipment Services' return on equity of 36.72% beat AZZ's return on equity.
H&E Equipment Services currently has a consensus target price of $64.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.69%. AZZ has a consensus target price of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.90%. Given AZZ's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AZZ is more favorable than H&E Equipment Services.
H&E Equipment Services pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. AZZ pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. H&E Equipment Services pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AZZ pays out 19.8% 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.
AZZ received 31 more outperform votes than H&E Equipment Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.96% of users gave H&E Equipment Services an outperform vote while only 55.18% of users gave AZZ an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AZZ had 39 more articles in the media than H&E Equipment Services. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for AZZ and 3 mentions for H&E Equipment Services. H&E Equipment Services' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat AZZ's score of 0.67 indicating that H&E Equipment Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.1% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of AZZ shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of H&E Equipment Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of AZZ shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
H&E Equipment Services beats AZZ on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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