ADT vs. BCO, KTOS, ALLE, FLS, TKR, ESAB, MLI, GTLS, AA, and SON
Should you be buying ADT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADT include Brink's (BCO), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Allegion (ALLE), Flowserve (FLS), Timken (TKR), ESAB (ESAB), Mueller Industries (MLI), Chart Industries (GTLS), Alcoa (AA), and Sonoco Products (SON).
Brink's (NYSE:BCO) and ADT (NYSE:ADT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Brink's pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. ADT pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Brink's pays out 37.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADT pays out 31.4% 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. Brink's has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and ADT has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. ADT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brink's received 29 more outperform votes than ADT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave Brink's an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave ADT an outperform vote.
Brink's currently has a consensus target price of $106.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.78%. ADT has a consensus target price of $8.43, suggesting a potential upside of 17.46%. Given Brink's' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ADT is more favorable than Brink's.
Brink's has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADT has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ADT has higher revenue and earnings than Brink's. ADT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brink's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ADT has a net margin of 12.81% compared to ADT's net margin of 2.46%. ADT's return on equity of 59.84% beat Brink's' return on equity.
In the previous week, ADT had 2 more articles in the media than Brink's. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for ADT and 3 mentions for Brink's. ADT's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Brink's' score of 0.02 indicating that Brink's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.0% of Brink's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of ADT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Brink's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of ADT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Brink's beats ADT on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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