ABBNY vs. DE, ITW, CTAS, PH, EMR, HON, ETN, JCI, GWW, and FERG
Should you be buying ABB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ABB include Deere & Company (DE), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Cintas (CTAS), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Emerson Electric (EMR), Honeywell International (HON), Eaton (ETN), Johnson Controls International (JCI), W.W. Grainger (GWW), and Ferguson (FERG).
Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) and ABB (NYSE:ABBNY) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Deere & Company received 455 more outperform votes than ABB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Deere & Company an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave ABB an outperform vote.
Deere & Company currently has a consensus price target of $432.92, suggesting a potential upside of 15.44%. Given ABB's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Deere & Company is more favorable than ABB.
Deere & Company has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Deere & Company's net margin of 11.21%. ABB's return on equity of 42.26% beat Deere & Company's return on equity.
68.6% of Deere & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of ABB shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Deere & Company shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of ABB shares are owned 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.
Deere & Company has higher revenue and earnings than ABB. Deere & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ABB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Deere & Company has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABB has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Deere & Company had 19 more articles in the media than ABB. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Deere & Company and 3 mentions for ABB. ABB's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Deere & Company's score of 0.31 indicating that Deere & Company is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Deere & Company pays an annual dividend of $5.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. ABB pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Deere & Company pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ABB pays out 29.9% 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. Deere & Company has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Deere & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Deere & Company beats ABB on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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