AZZ vs. EPAC, KMT, PLUG, SXI, XRX, AMBP, UFPT, B, TNC, and HEES
Should you be buying AZZ stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AZZ include Enerpac Tool Group (EPAC), Kennametal (KMT), Plug Power (PLUG), Standex International (SXI), Xerox (XRX), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Barnes Group (B), Tennant (TNC), and H&E Equipment Services (HEES).
AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) and Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE:EPAC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
90.9% of AZZ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of AZZ shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Enerpac Tool Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AZZ. AZZ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enerpac Tool Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Enerpac Tool Group has a net margin of 11.75% compared to AZZ's net margin of 6.61%. Enerpac Tool Group's return on equity of 26.38% beat AZZ's return on equity.
AZZ currently has a consensus target price of $80.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.90%. Enerpac Tool Group has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.15%. Given AZZ's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AZZ is more favorable than Enerpac Tool Group.
AZZ received 288 more outperform votes than Enerpac Tool Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.18% of users gave AZZ an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Enerpac Tool Group an outperform vote.
AZZ pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Enerpac Tool Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. AZZ pays out 19.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enerpac Tool Group pays out 3.1% 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 has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enerpac Tool Group has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AZZ had 41 more articles in the media than Enerpac Tool Group. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for AZZ and 3 mentions for Enerpac Tool Group. Enerpac Tool Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat AZZ's score of 0.71 indicating that Enerpac Tool Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Enerpac Tool Group beats AZZ on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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