Interface (NASDAQ: TILE) and Interface (NASDAQ:IFSIA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitabiliy.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Interface and Interface, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

Interface presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.26%. Given Interfaces higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Interface is more favorable than Interface.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

92.2% of Interface shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Interface shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Interface and Interfaces revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Interface has higher revenue and earnings than Interface.

Profitability

This table compares Interface and Interfaces net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Dividends

Interface pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Interface does not pay a dividend. Interface pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Interface beats Interface on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Interface

Interface Inc. is engaged in design, production and sale of modular carpet, also known as carpet tile. As of January 1, 2017, the Company marketed its modular carpets in over 110 countries under the brand names Interface and FLOR. The Company operates through three segments: Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Company distributes its products through two primary channels, including direct sales to end users and indirect sales through independent contractors or distributors. The Company sells an antimicrobial chemical compound under the trademark Intersept that the Company incorporates in all of its modular carpet products. It also sells its TacTiles carpet tile installation system, along with a range of traditional adhesives and products for carpet installation and maintenance that are manufactured by a third party. It also provides turnkey project management services for national accounts and other customers through its InterfaceSERVICES business.

About Interface

Interface Inc. is engaged in design, production and sale of modular carpet, also known as carpet tile. As of January 1, 2017, the Company marketed its modular carpets in over 110 countries under the brand names Interface and FLOR. The Company operates through three segments: Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Company distributes its products through two primary channels, including direct sales to end users and indirect sales through independent contractors or distributors. The Company sells an antimicrobial chemical compound under the trademark Intersept that the Company incorporates in all of its modular carpet products. It also sells its TacTiles carpet tile installation system, along with a range of traditional adhesives and products for carpet installation and maintenance that are manufactured by a third party. It also provides turnkey project management services for national accounts and other customers through its InterfaceSERVICES business.

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Home improvement projects can resemble a military maneuver one miscalculation and everything is lost. I didn't want my decision to recarpet our stairs, hallway and bedrooms to be my Waterloo, so we prepared for the new carpet installation like we were preparing for battle. As everyone knows, winning a battle takes discipline, organizational skills and a plan. Unfortunately, I don't have any of those things. But I do like being in charge and giving orders, so I made myself general and rallied the troops to clear out the stuff that had accumulated in the bedrooms over the years.

It did turn out to be a battle a battle over where to put everything. When I ordered the carpet, I was told to expect installation in three to four weeks. Normal people would have used that time to sort through their things in order to avoid a last-minute rush. My family understands the concept of normal people, we're just not sure how it applies to us. That's why we waited until three days before D-Day before we started moving things out of the bedrooms.

OK, we didn't really start until two days before D-Day because the first day we talked about it a lot, then we looked at everything in the rooms and agreed it was going to be a ton of work. Actually, if I'm going to be perfectly honest, we only gave ourselves one day to prepare because two days seemed like more than enough time and we like to think we do our best work under pressure. I'm sure that's what Eisenhower would have done.

I didn't think it would be a problem, though, because I'd made a brilliant tactical decision to not have the master bedroom recarpeted. That would give us a place to put everything from the other bedrooms. The tactic seemed slightly less brilliant when our bedroom quickly filled up and we had a lot more things to clear out. So we made dozens of trips up and down the stairs carrying our treasured possessions, until the dining room and then the living room were filled. At least Hannibal got to use elephants.

Still, we soldiered on. Well, most of us did my son went AWOL a few times to play video games but we were making progress. Closets were emptied, bookcases were cleared and refugee stuffed animals were relocated to a safe spot. Ideally, all the outgrown clothes and toys would have already been donated, so we wouldn't have to waste a lot of our time and energy moving them around. Ideally, I also wouldn't wait until the last minute to do everything.

That night it was hard to sleep, surrounded by all the stuff from our kids' rooms, including Felicity an American Girl doll from the Revolutionary War period. She stood sentry while I slept, her vacant, soulless eyes unreadable beneath her tricorn hat. I doubt George Washington had to sleep under such difficult, and creepy, conditions. If he had, the Revolutionary War may have turned out differently and today we'd all be speaking English.

We suffered a surprise attack the next morning when the installers arrived an hour earlier than expected. Didn't they know I needed every minute I could get to clear out the stuff that I forgot was under the beds? I had no idea where I was going to put those things and was about to wave a white flag, when I remembered the bathtub had yet to be used as a storage space. Problem solved.

There was a momentary setback when the installers moved the bookcase from my daughter's room to reveal a very dark area on the carpet that was, I'm sure coincidentally, the exact same size and shape as the bookcase. Within the rectangle there were a variety of small twigs, pebbles, bits of fluff and press-on jewels. The installers looked at me, waiting for orders on how to proceed with an area capable of harboring a village of tiny lifeforms. I summoned my inner William Tecumseh Sherman and ordered them to spare nothing and rip it up from wall to wall. I chalked up the potential deaths of hundreds of innocent dust mites to collateral damage.

Now that most of the upstairs has new carpet, I'll eventually want new carpet in the master bedroom, too. But that means repeating the process and I'm not sure it's worth it. Floor is hell.

Betsy Bitner is a Capital Region writer. bbitner1@nycap.rr.com.

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When one thinks about ones childhood home, the house that contains ones earliest memories, in whose rooms one passed ones formative years, different images come to mind. For some, a kitchen filled with steaming pots carries the aroma and experiences of their initial domestic life. For others, a grand piano that once resounded with long-forgotten tunes is the object that represents the soundtrack of family life. Still others associate their first years with a beloved pet or with a ball they kicked around the backyard with their siblings.

But for artist Fatma Shanan, whose exhibition Works 2010- 2017 is on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the object that has dominated her perception of her family, her childhood and her identity is the Oriental carpet.

Indeed, the painter, who hails from the Druse village of Julis, seems to have spread the carpet as far as it could stretch, creating dozens of renditions of the typical Oriental rug and placing them in different settings. The numerous paintings she has crafted illustrate Shanans evolution as a painter, but they also tell a personal story, the intimate tale of a young woman tracing her roots back to their starting point.

In the exhibition, curated by Doron Lurie, Shanan takes an unabashed look at herself and the different elements that weave together the story of her life. The act of telling, the artist seems to imply, doesnt coincide with a political dialogue. Her conversation with herself and her past is acutely personal, even if some might tout the warm reception shes receiving from the mainstream Israeli art scene as a victory for the local Druse community.

The painters self-portraits are some of her strongest and most bewitching pieces, and they are almost impossible to look away from. Two of them, placed side by side, Self-Portrait and a Carpet 1 and Self-Portrait and a Carpet 2, show an Oriental rug in earth tones spread out vertically. But hiding among the biblical-looking illustrations of figures and animals are outlines of the artist herself. She looks as though she could be stepping into the carpet or, alternately, merging with it until she becomes one with the fabric and fades into its folds.

One portrait has warmer shades, with its paler twin looking like the negative of a photograph. Through the paintings, the artist seems to be raising questions about the importance and weight our surroundings have on the shaping of our personalities, at times to the point that they could swallow us whole. She seems to be debating whether ones home is a safe zone, a shelter, or rather a suffocating place from which one should try to break free.

Another oeuvre, Self-Portrait and a Carpet 3, suggests that the answer to this question is at least as complex and multifaceted as the carpets the artist is so drawn to. In this demurely honest painting, Shanan depicts herself kneeling down with her head bowed, her face touching a carpet and hidden from view. Perhaps intentionally, she is positioned at an angle that Muslim worshipers use during prayer. Is the carpet, symbolic of her background, a source of solace? Is she seeking comfort in it or giving in to the power of her origins? In other moving works, the artist uses the carpet as a means to bridge inner turmoil and the outside world. Portraying young girls standing on carpets in unlikely settings such as an open field or a backyard in works like Lara and Mia, Shanan tests the thin boundaries between girlhood and womanhood, the safety of home versus the arbitrariness of the outside, youth and adulthood. The young women seem to be extensions of the artist herself as she revisits her old stomping grounds from the perspective of time.

In other paintings, carpets are rolled out on village rooftops, with an aerial view of children playing.

She juxtaposes the richness and beauty of the carpets with the dirt and claustrophobic density of the village homes, looking at them from high above. These paintings are especially intimate, so much so that it seems that the artist had no choice but to paint them from afar so as to keep the memories at arms length, a safe distance away.

Some of the works are playful and liberating, even humorous.

One such painting, called Stepping on Watermelon Seeds, shows a pair of barefoot legs stomping on a field of watermelon seeds. Its portrayal of the unmitigated joy that lies in the act of letting go is so straightforward and uncomplicated that it tempts the viewer to step right in. But Shanans unflinching gaze also rests on a carpet she places in the backyard of a decrepit old village home surrounded by the electrical wiring of an air conditioner.

Here and throughout many of her creations, the artist displays a casual understanding of the almost impossible balance of esthetics. The elegance and affluence emanating from the carpets are strong, but theyre there to offset the dank and sad surroundings.

Sigmund Freud divided the psyche into three personality components: the id, the ego and the super-ego. The first is in charge of the uncoordinated desires and instincts of the personality. In that sense, Shanans carpets are her id.

They weave together the contrasting and conflicting joy and pain, sorrow and triumph that are part of growing up and looking back on what has made a person into who he or she is.

A video installation at the entrance to the exhibition catches the artist and the children on the rooftop in the act of unfolding the carpets. Carpet on a Flat Rooftop takes the viewer to the limit of the physical act of rolling out the rug.

Watching it on repeat, one can almost smell the dust and sweat wrung out of the fabric. Again and again, the carpet fills up the screen until it loses all meaning, and all one can wish is to join the artist as she covers every free surface of her world, carpet after carpet.

The exhibition is on display until October 28 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

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The Hoover Public Library has closed its childrens and nonfiction departments for a month to allow for installation of new carpet.

Those two areas, which are on the left side of the main hallway that goes through the library, were made inaccessible to patrons on Monday, Aug. 7. Library officials hope to reopen those areas on Friday, Sept. 8, said Carrie Steinmehl, the librarys technology coordinator, who is overseeing the project.

While those departments are not accessible physically, patrons still will be able to receive service from those departments at the teens desk and circulation desk, Steinmehl said. Each department also will offer a small browsing collection, she said.

The technology hub also will be closed for a day or two next week (sometime during Aug. 13-19) as book shelves are moved, Steinmehl said.

It was just two years ago (August and early September 2015) that much of the library was closed for a renovation and makeover, but that project included new carpet only for the technology hub and fiction and teen departments, which are on the right side of the main hallway, Steinmehl said.

The carpet replacement was divided into two phases due to budget and time constraints, she said.

This years carpet replacement is costing just under $144,000, Steinmehl said. Commercial Floor Systems and Brians Flooring and Design are doing the installation work, while Florida Library Designs is moving the shelves, she said.

The nonfiction carpet will match the carpet in the teens and fiction department, and the carpet in the childrens area will match the blue carpet in the starred hallway that leads to the youth programming room, Steinmehl said.

We appreciate your patience during this time and look forward to a fresh new look in September, she said.

For more information, call the library at 444-7800.

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It's an age old question we continue to ponder: What actually defines art?

A $20,000 drawing prize was awarded to an installation made of carpet on Tuesday night.

'State Block' is suspended from the roof at a height of almost 5m.

Artist Kirsty Lillico says it's abstract. "It's based on a modernist apartment block in Auckland on Symonds St, and it explores the legacy of modernist architecture," she told Newshub.

Ms Lillico says there's more to the hanging carpet than you might think.

"I guess I sort of think about how we occupy space in buildings, and that's the kind of space we occupy, and these are the walls and everything else," Lillico said.

The Parkin prize is given out for exceptional drawings. This year 500 entries were whittled down to 80 for the exhibition.

And if you don't think carpet should count, let alone win, the Wellington judges think you're wrong.

Founder Chris Parkin says he "doesn't care" if people are critical of the piece.

"I mean at the end of the day you put a knife into a bit of carpet, you actually draw a line," he told Newshub.

"That line wanders, it creates an image."

He also points out it might come in handy later - for him to use.

"We've got the same make of carpet in our house so I suppose if we get a bit short or a few holes, we can always put that down," Mr Parkin joked.

For Ms Lillico, the win was her third time lucky - this really was a magic carpet.

She says her victory will spark debate. It might also inspire carpet layers around the country.

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Kirsty-Lillico, State Block (all images courtesy Parkin Drawing Prize)

The winner of New Zealands premier award for drawing this year was made not with pencil, charcoal, ink, or any other traditional drawing tool, but with carpet large, cut-up scraps of it, piled on the floor and draped over a string. Wellington artist Kirsty Lillicos State Block earned her the top spot in the annual Parkin Drawing Prize as well as NZD20,000, beating over 500 entries submitted by other New Zealanders, almost all of whom produced more conventional works on paper.

Its based on a modernist apartment block in Auckland on Symonds St., and it explores the legacy of modernist architecture, Lillico told Newshub. I guess I sort of think about how we occupy space in buildings, and thats the kind of space we occupy, and these are the walls and everything else.

Launched by Chris Parkin, an art collector and owner of Wellingtons Museum Art Hotel, the Parkin Drawing Prize promotes drawing in all its forms as discovery, a testing of ideas, and decision-making. Submissions this year ranged from a realist sketch of a flying squirrel by Margaret Silverwood to an installation of drawings wrapped in tissue and placed on the lid of an archive box by Wendy Bornholdt. In the awards four-year history, Lillicos assemblage is arguably the winning work thats least like a drawing: previous recipients include an India ink and charcoal drawing by Hannah Beehre; a graphite floor piece by Gabrielle Amodeo; and a charcoal image of astronomer Edwin Hubble that turned out to be acopy of a famous photo by Margaret Bourke-White.

Yes, I know, Magrittes pipe, Duchamps toilet, etc. But in the context of a national contest thats based on a specific category, should one, ahem, drawthe line somewhere? If I take a photograph, could I say I drew with light or even emulsion and submit it? Isnt there a difference between an artwork that can be construed, as an afterthought, as a drawing and a piece that seriously examines what a drawing is or can be?

This years prize shortlisted 84 artworks, including sculptures, installations, and digital works, but each of those features some clear association with or meditation on the line. Karyn Taylors Arc in 3 States, for instance, shows an arc (a kind of line!) as a sculpture, a light, and a shadow. Her piece was one of the 10 works that received a $500 merit award.

Lillico told Stuff.co.nzthat she sort of re-representeda drawing made by someone else. Drawing, to me, its not just about a pencil and paper. Im using a knife and carpet and hanging it in a space to achieve the same ends.

And heres how the prizes judge, Searaphine Pick, described the work, according to a press release:

Kirsty Lillicoss work State Blockis challenging, brave and impressive. Her use of salvaged carpet for surface material to draw into it with a knife a blueprint plan of a 1940s modernist high-density concrete block of flats, then presenting it by hanging and draping it from floor to ceiling and transforming the blue print into a three dimensional drawing in space as a floppy, soft and bodily object quite the opposite to the hard-edged concrete Brutalism style building the plan was designed for people to live in.

Sure cutting, drawing, its all just semantics! Maybe its time for the Parkin Drawing Prize to just rebrand as the Parkin Conceptual Art Prize.

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Mohawk Industries (NYSE: MHK) and Interface (NASDAQ:IFSIA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitabiliy, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Mohawk Industries and Interface, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

Mohawk Industries currently has a consensus price target of $266.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.23%. Given Mohawk Industries higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Mohawk Industries is more favorable than Interface.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mohawk Industries and Interfaces gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Mohawk Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Interface.

Profitability

This table compares Mohawk Industries and Interfaces net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

77.0% of Mohawk Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Mohawk Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Mohawk Industries beats Interface on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

Mohawk Industries Company Profile

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is a flooring manufacturer that creates products for residential and commercial spaces around the world. The Company segments include Global Ceramic, Flooring North America (Flooring NA) and Flooring Rest of the World (Flooring ROW). Its manufacturing and distribution processes provide carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone, luxury vinyl tile and vinyl flooring. The Global Ceramic segment designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets a line of ceramic tile, porcelain tile and natural stone products used in the residential and commercial markets for both remodeling and new construction. The Flooring NA segment designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets carpet, laminate, carpet pad, rugs, hardwood and vinyl. The Flooring ROW segment designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets laminate, hardwood flooring, roofing elements, insulation boards, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), chipboards, and vinyl flooring products.

Interface Company Profile

Interface Inc. is engaged in design, production and sale of modular carpet, also known as carpet tile. As of January 1, 2017, the Company marketed its modular carpets in over 110 countries under the brand names Interface and FLOR. The Company operates through three segments: Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Company distributes its products through two primary channels, including direct sales to end users and indirect sales through independent contractors or distributors. The Company sells an antimicrobial chemical compound under the trademark Intersept that the Company incorporates in all of its modular carpet products. It also sells its TacTiles carpet tile installation system, along with a range of traditional adhesives and products for carpet installation and maintenance that are manufactured by a third party. It also provides turnkey project management services for national accounts and other customers through its InterfaceSERVICES business.

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On Saturday Buus and his wife, Tina, opened Affordable Flooring in Farmington. The storefront, located at 18350 Pilot Knob Road, is an expansion of Total Image Flooring, the in-home flooring sales business Buus started in 2010 after 15 years of working with his father in the carpet installation business.

It was Buus father who got him interested in the flooring business in the first place. Buus grew up watching his dad install carpet. Theres a story about him going along on a job when he was 2 years old and sitting in a bucket of glue. He started working with his dad at the age of 14.

Buus tried some other jobs after high school. He drove school buses and spent about eight months working in a welding shop. But there was something about carpet that kept drawing him back.

Dad did it, Buus said. A lot of boys just follow Dad around.

Buus has worked full-time with his father for the past 15 years. Hes known for most of that time he eventually wanted to go into business for himself, but an unexpected family situation helped move things along. Mason and Tina have a 20-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter, but they recently became foster parents of two younger boys, ages 6 and 10 months. They hope to eventually adopt the boys.

That means some changes in the familys life. They wanted to make sure they could be around as much as possible to take care of the boys. To that end, their new shop has a nursery. Tina, who will run the storefront on a day-to-day basis, will take care of the kids there. Theres also a spot where the family can eat dinner together if theyre not able to get home to the kitchen table.

The couple started looking for a space for Affordable Flooring about a year ago. They needed something that would work for the business, but it also had to be local.

The numbers had to make sense. That was the biggest thing, Buus said. It was trying to stay close to home. We didnt want to have to travel a couple towns over.

They signed the lease on their north Farmington space a month ago and have been busy ever since getting things ready. On Saturday, they celebrated their grand opening with family, boxes of delivery pizza spread out on a table while people milled around and talked.

Theyre excited to see the reaction to the new space. The pre-holiday season is typically busy for flooring installers as people get ready for the arrival of family.

Right now we know we can do it, Tina Buus said. Once were up and running we can do it as long as Farmington likes us.

If the city welcomes them the way they hope, they might eventually be able to let Buus father retire from installing and run the shop for them. A family business come full circle.

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