CXT vs. WTS, MWA, B, HLIO, NISN, ZKIN, HIHO, AREB, PH, and RBA
Should you be buying Crane NXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crane NXT include Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Mueller Water Products (MWA), Barnes Group (B), Helios Technologies (HLIO), Nisun International Enterprise Development Group (NISN), ZK International Group (ZKIN), Highway (HIHO), American Rebel (AREB), Parker-Hannifin (PH), and RB Global (RBA).
Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) and Crane NXT (NYSE:CXT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Watts Water Technologies received 291 more outperform votes than Crane NXT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Crane NXT an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave Watts Water Technologies an outperform vote.
Watts Water Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Crane NXT pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Watts Water Technologies pays out 21.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crane NXT pays out 20.2% 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. Watts Water Technologies has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Crane NXT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Crane NXT has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Crane NXT's net margin of 12.53%. Watts Water Technologies' return on equity of 25.50% beat Crane NXT's return on equity.
Watts Water Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $199.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.19%. Crane NXT has a consensus price target of $81.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.91%. Given Watts Water Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Crane NXT is more favorable than Watts Water Technologies.
In the previous week, Watts Water Technologies had 7 more articles in the media than Crane NXT. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Watts Water Technologies and 3 mentions for Crane NXT. Watts Water Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Crane NXT's score of 1.08 indicating that Crane NXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.0% of Watts Water Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of Crane NXT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Watts Water Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Crane NXT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Watts Water Technologies has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crane NXT has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Watts Water Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Crane NXT. Crane NXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Watts Water Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Crane NXT beats Watts Water Technologies on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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