MSA vs. AIT, SITE, RBC, MIDD, BERY, ATKR, ESAB, MLI, AA, and TKR
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), RBC Bearings (RBC), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), Mueller Industries (MLI), Alcoa (AA), and Timken (TKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
MSA Safety pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. MSA Safety pays out 27.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 15.5% 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.
MSA Safety presently has a consensus price target of $189.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.65%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus price target of $201.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.42%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than MSA Safety.
MSA Safety received 46 more outperform votes than Applied Industrial Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 58.71% of users gave Applied Industrial Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 2 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for MSA Safety and 15 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. MSA Safety's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Applied Industrial Technologies' score of 0.63 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of 8.36%. MSA Safety's return on equity of 31.48% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.
Applied Industrial Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than MSA Safety. Applied Industrial Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSA Safety, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of MSA Safety shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MSA Safety and Applied Industrial Technologies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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