RBC vs. TKR, AIT, ATKR, ESAB, BERY, AA, MLI, SITE, GTLS, and MSA
Should you be buying RBC Bearings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RBC Bearings include Timken (TKR), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Atkore (ATKR), ESAB (ESAB), Berry Global Group (BERY), Alcoa (AA), Mueller Industries (MLI), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Chart Industries (GTLS), and MSA Safety (MSA). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Timken (NYSE:TKR) and RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Timken has higher revenue and earnings than RBC Bearings. Timken is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Timken currently has a consensus target price of $86.73, indicating a potential downside of 0.86%. RBC Bearings has a consensus target price of $275.86, indicating a potential upside of 11.13%. Given Timken's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than Timken.
RBC Bearings has a net margin of 12.81% compared to RBC Bearings' net margin of 8.26%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 19.57% beat Timken's return on equity.
Timken received 162 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.68% of users gave Timken an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Timken had 18 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Timken and 3 mentions for RBC Bearings. Timken's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat RBC Bearings' score of 0.47 indicating that RBC Bearings is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Timken has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of Timken shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Timken shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Timken beats RBC Bearings on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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