MSA vs. RBC, AIT, MIDD, BERY, SITE, AA, GTLS, MLI, ESAB, and GPK
Should you be buying MSA Safety stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSA Safety include RBC Bearings (RBC), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Middleby (MIDD), Berry Global Group (BERY), SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Alcoa (AA), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), ESAB (ESAB), and Graphic Packaging (GPK). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
RBC Bearings (NYSE:RBC) and MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA) are both mid-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
RBC Bearings currently has a consensus target price of $275.86, indicating a potential upside of 4.35%. MSA Safety has a consensus target price of $189.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.98%. Given MSA Safety's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe RBC Bearings is more favorable than MSA Safety.
RBC Bearings has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MSA Safety. MSA Safety is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RBC Bearings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, MSA Safety had 4 more articles in the media than RBC Bearings. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for MSA Safety and 4 mentions for RBC Bearings. RBC Bearings' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat MSA Safety's score of 0.59 indicating that MSA Safety is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RBC Bearings has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSA Safety has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.5% of MSA Safety shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of RBC Bearings shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of MSA Safety shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MSA Safety received 56 more outperform votes than RBC Bearings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave MSA Safety an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave RBC Bearings an outperform vote.
MSA Safety has a net margin of 14.81% compared to MSA Safety's net margin of 12.81%. RBC Bearings' return on equity of 31.51% beat MSA Safety's return on equity.
Summary
MSA Safety beats RBC Bearings on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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