HNI vs. SCS, WNS, LSPD, NWTN, GEO, RAMP, BFH, PAYO, BKKT, and INTR
Should you be buying HNI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HNI include Steelcase (SCS), WNS (WNS), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), NWTN (NWTN), The GEO Group (GEO), LiveRamp (RAMP), Bread Financial (BFH), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Bakkt (BKKT), and Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) and HNI (NYSE:HNI) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Steelcase presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.72%. HNI has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.81%. Given Steelcase's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HNI is more favorable than Steelcase.
Steelcase pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. HNI pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Steelcase pays out 58.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HNI pays out 94.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Steelcase is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, HNI had 23 more articles in the media than Steelcase. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for HNI and 3 mentions for Steelcase. HNI's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Steelcase's score of 0.35 indicating that Steelcase is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.4% of Steelcase shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of HNI shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Steelcase shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of HNI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Steelcase has higher revenue and earnings than HNI. Steelcase is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HNI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Steelcase's return on equity of 17.75% beat HNI's return on equity.
Steelcase has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HNI has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Steelcase received 72 more outperform votes than HNI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Steelcase an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave HNI an outperform vote.
Summary
Steelcase beats HNI on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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