AYI vs. ROK, ENPH, GNRC, WIRE, FELE, ENS, BDC, BRC, POWL, and VICR
Should you be buying Acuity Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Acuity Brands include Rockwell Automation (ROK), Enphase Energy (ENPH), Generac (GNRC), Encore Wire (WIRE), Franklin Electric (FELE), EnerSys (ENS), Belden (BDC), Brady (BRC), Powell Industries (POWL), and Vicor (VICR). These companies are all part of the "electrical components & equipment" industry.
Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) and Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
75.8% of Rockwell Automation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Acuity Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Rockwell Automation shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Acuity Brands 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.
Rockwell Automation has higher revenue and earnings than Acuity Brands. Acuity Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rockwell Automation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rockwell Automation currently has a consensus target price of $307.21, suggesting a potential upside of 20.05%. Acuity Brands has a consensus target price of $289.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.23%. Given Acuity Brands' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Rockwell Automation is more favorable than Acuity Brands.
Rockwell Automation has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Acuity Brands has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rockwell Automation had 21 more articles in the media than Acuity Brands. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Rockwell Automation and 6 mentions for Acuity Brands. Rockwell Automation's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Acuity Brands' score of 0.49 indicating that Acuity Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rockwell Automation has a net margin of 13.19% compared to Rockwell Automation's net margin of 9.81%. Acuity Brands' return on equity of 34.83% beat Rockwell Automation's return on equity.
Acuity Brands received 93 more outperform votes than Rockwell Automation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.16% of users gave Acuity Brands an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave Rockwell Automation an outperform vote.
Rockwell Automation pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Acuity Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Rockwell Automation pays out 48.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Acuity Brands pays out 5.0% 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. Acuity Brands has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Acuity Brands beats Rockwell Automation on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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