TKR vs. RBC, FLS, ADT, GTLS, MLI, ZWS, AA, BERY, ESAB, and ATKR
Should you be buying Timken stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Timken include RBC Bearings (RBC), Flowserve (FLS), ADT (ADT), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Alcoa (AA), Berry Global Group (BERY), ESAB (ESAB), and Atkore (ATKR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and Timken (NYSE:TKR) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timken has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
89.1% of Timken shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Timken shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
RBC Bearings currently has a consensus target price of $275.86, suggesting a potential upside of 11.13%. Timken has a consensus target price of $86.73, suggesting a potential downside of 0.86%. Given Timken's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than Timken.
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 media.
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.
Summary
Timken beats RBC Bearings on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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