TS vs. HUBB, BALL, AVY, IEX, AXON, ZBRA, PKG, NDSN, DOV, and CNHI
Should you be buying Tenaris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenaris include Hubbell (HUBB), Ball (BALL), Avery Dennison (AVY), IDEX (IEX), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Nordson (NDSN), Dover (DOV), and CNH Industrial (CNHI). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) and Tenaris (NYSE:TS) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Hubbell had 16 more articles in the media than Tenaris. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Hubbell and 5 mentions for Tenaris. Tenaris' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Hubbell's score of 0.13 indicating that Hubbell is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tenaris has higher revenue and earnings than Hubbell. Tenaris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hubbell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tenaris has a net margin of 24.89% compared to Tenaris' net margin of 13.23%. Tenaris' return on equity of 29.55% beat Hubbell's return on equity.
Hubbell has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenaris has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.2% of Hubbell shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.5% of Tenaris shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Hubbell shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Tenaris 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.
Hubbell pays an annual dividend of $4.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Tenaris pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Hubbell pays out 36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tenaris pays out 13.3% 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. Hubbell has increased its dividend for 16 consecutive years and Tenaris has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Tenaris is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Tenaris received 90 more outperform votes than Hubbell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Tenaris an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Hubbell an outperform vote.
Hubbell currently has a consensus price target of $386.57, indicating a potential downside of 1.22%. Tenaris has a consensus price target of $41.60, indicating a potential upside of 18.42%. Given Hubbell's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tenaris is more favorable than Hubbell.
Summary
Hubbell beats Tenaris on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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