EPAC vs. TNC, OI, SXI, KMT, UFPT, B, POWL, AZZ, PLUG, and LZ
Should you be buying Enerpac Tool Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enerpac Tool Group include Tennant (TNC), O-I Glass (OI), Standex International (SXI), Kennametal (KMT), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Barnes Group (B), Powell Industries (POWL), AZZ (AZZ), Plug Power (PLUG), and LegalZoom.com (LZ). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Enerpac Tool Group (NYSE:EPAC) and Tennant (NYSE:TNC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Enerpac Tool Group has a net margin of 11.75% compared to Tennant's net margin of 9.10%. Enerpac Tool Group's return on equity of 26.38% beat Tennant's return on equity.
In the previous week, Tennant had 5 more articles in the media than Enerpac Tool Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Tennant and 2 mentions for Enerpac Tool Group. Tennant's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Enerpac Tool Group's score of -0.45 indicating that Tennant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Enerpac Tool Group has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tennant has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tennant received 321 more outperform votes than Enerpac Tool Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.10% of users gave Tennant an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Enerpac Tool Group an outperform vote.
Enerpac Tool Group currently has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.44%. Tennant has a consensus target price of $106.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.23%. Given Tennant's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tennant is more favorable than Enerpac Tool Group.
97.7% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Tennant shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Enerpac Tool Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Tennant shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enerpac Tool Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Tennant pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Enerpac Tool Group pays out 3.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tennant pays out 18.6% 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.
Tennant has higher revenue and earnings than Enerpac Tool Group. Tennant 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.
Summary
Tennant beats Enerpac Tool Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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