KFY vs. HI, HTZ, CWST, ROLL, CR, BWXT, HRT, RCRTW, BLDP, and YELL
Should you be buying Korn Ferry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korn Ferry include Hillenbrand (HI), Hertz Global (HTZ), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), RBC Bearings (ROLL), Crane (CR), BWX Technologies (BWXT), HireRight (HRT), Recruiter.com Group (RCRTW), Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), and Yellow (YELL).
Hillenbrand (NYSE:HI) and Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Hillenbrand has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Korn Ferry. Hillenbrand is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Korn Ferry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hillenbrand has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korn Ferry has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hillenbrand has a net margin of 18.39% compared to Hillenbrand's net margin of 5.34%. Korn Ferry's return on equity of 14.65% beat Hillenbrand's return on equity.
Hillenbrand currently has a consensus price target of $61.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.26%. Korn Ferry has a consensus price target of $69.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.03%. Given Korn Ferry's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hillenbrand is more favorable than Korn Ferry.
In the previous week, Korn Ferry had 15 more articles in the media than Hillenbrand. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Korn Ferry and 9 mentions for Hillenbrand. Korn Ferry's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Hillenbrand's score of 0.12 indicating that Hillenbrand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.1% of Hillenbrand shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Korn Ferry shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Hillenbrand shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Korn Ferry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Korn Ferry received 61 more outperform votes than Hillenbrand when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.11% of users gave Hillenbrand an outperform vote while only 54.96% of users gave Korn Ferry an outperform vote.
Hillenbrand pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Korn Ferry pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hillenbrand pays out 11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Korn Ferry pays out 45.7% 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. Hillenbrand has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Korn Ferry has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Summary
Hillenbrand beats Korn Ferry on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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