MSM vs. GIC, SLGN, SON, ZWS, FELE, ADT, SEE, WIRE, TKR, and FLS
Should you be buying MSC Industrial Direct stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSC Industrial Direct include Global Industrial (GIC), Silgan (SLGN), Sonoco Products (SON), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Franklin Electric (FELE), ADT (ADT), Sealed Air (SEE), Encore Wire (WIRE), Timken (TKR), and Flowserve (FLS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE:MSM) and Global Industrial (NYSE:GIC) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
MSC Industrial Direct has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Industrial has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.3% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of Global Industrial shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of MSC Industrial Direct shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.3% of Global Industrial shares are held by company 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.
MSC Industrial Direct has higher revenue and earnings than Global Industrial. MSC Industrial Direct is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Industrial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Industrial had 15 more articles in the media than MSC Industrial Direct. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Global Industrial and 1 mentions for MSC Industrial Direct. MSC Industrial Direct's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Global Industrial's score of 0.01 indicating that MSC Industrial Direct is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MSC Industrial Direct currently has a consensus target price of $107.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.43%. Given MSC Industrial Direct's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe MSC Industrial Direct is more favorable than Global Industrial.
MSC Industrial Direct has a net margin of 7.89% compared to Global Industrial's net margin of 5.34%. Global Industrial's return on equity of 28.85% beat MSC Industrial Direct's return on equity.
MSC Industrial Direct pays an annual dividend of $3.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Global Industrial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. MSC Industrial Direct pays out 59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Industrial pays out 54.3% 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.
MSC Industrial Direct received 394 more outperform votes than Global Industrial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.23% of users gave MSC Industrial Direct an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Global Industrial an outperform vote.
Summary
MSC Industrial Direct beats Global Industrial on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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