CR vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, SWK, NDSN, PNR, WWD, LECO, and ITT
Should you be buying Crane stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane include Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Nordson (NDSN), Pentair (PNR), Woodward (WWD), Lincoln Electric (LECO), and ITT (ITT). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Crane (NYSE:CR) and Dover (NYSE:DOV) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Dover received 304 more outperform votes than Crane when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote while only 59.50% of users gave Crane an outperform vote.
75.1% of Crane shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Crane shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Dover shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Crane's net margin of 13.10%. Dover's return on equity of 25.04% beat Crane's return on equity.
Crane pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Crane pays out 22.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dover pays out 19.6% 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. Dover is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crane presently has a consensus target price of $143.67, indicating a potential upside of 2.84%. Dover has a consensus target price of $185.75, indicating a potential upside of 4.80%. Given Dover's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dover is more favorable than Crane.
In the previous week, Dover had 5 more articles in the media than Crane. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Dover and 3 mentions for Crane. Crane's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Dover's score of 1.01 indicating that Crane is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crane has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dover has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than Crane. Dover is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dover beats Crane on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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