FLS vs. DOV, IEX, SNA, GGG, PNR, NDSN, SWK, LECO, ITT, and WWD
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Dover (DOV), IDEX (IEX), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Nordson (NDSN), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Lincoln Electric (LECO), ITT (ITT), and Woodward (WWD). These companies are all part of the "industrial machinery" industry.
Dover (NYSE:DOV) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Dover has higher revenue and earnings than Flowserve. Dover is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowserve, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dover received 155 more outperform votes than Flowserve when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.87% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Dover an outperform vote.
Dover has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dover has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Dover's net margin of 5.29%. Flowserve's return on equity of 25.04% beat Dover's return on equity.
Dover pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Dover pays out 19.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 47.5% 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 has raised its dividend for 69 consecutive years and Flowserve has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
84.5% of Dover shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Dover shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Flowserve shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Dover had 18 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Dover and 22 mentions for Flowserve. Dover's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Flowserve's score of 0.07 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dover presently has a consensus price target of $185.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.27%. Flowserve has a consensus price target of $51.55, suggesting a potential upside of 4.60%. Given Dover's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Dover.
Summary
Dover beats Flowserve on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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