VMI vs. TEX, WIRE, SEE, FELE, VRRM, ENS, SLGN, MSM, BDC, and KAI
Should you be buying Valmont Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valmont Industries include Terex (TEX), Encore Wire (WIRE), Sealed Air (SEE), Franklin Electric (FELE), Verra Mobility (VRRM), EnerSys (ENS), Silgan (SLGN), MSC Industrial Direct (MSM), Belden (BDC), and Kadant (KAI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Valmont Industries (NYSE:VMI) and Terex (NYSE:TEX) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Valmont Industries has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Terex has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valmont Industries currently has a consensus target price of $262.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.77%. Terex has a consensus target price of $65.08, suggesting a potential upside of 9.21%. Given Valmont Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Valmont Industries is more favorable than Terex.
Terex has a net margin of 9.87% compared to Valmont Industries' net margin of 3.44%. Terex's return on equity of 31.52% beat Valmont Industries' return on equity.
Valmont Industries pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Terex pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Valmont Industries pays out 35.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Terex pays out 9.0% 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.
87.8% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Terex shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Valmont Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Terex shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Terex has higher revenue and earnings than Valmont Industries. Terex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valmont Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Terex had 21 more articles in the media than Valmont Industries. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Terex and 6 mentions for Valmont Industries. Terex's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Valmont Industries' score of 0.86 indicating that Terex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Terex received 271 more outperform votes than Valmont Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.76% of users gave Valmont Industries an outperform vote while only 58.11% of users gave Terex an outperform vote.
Summary
Terex beats Valmont Industries on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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